LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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["Vathek" Beckford. From a Medallion]1
[John Farquhar surveying the Ruins of Fonthill]21
[Beau Brummel. From a Miniature]22
[Lord Alvanley. A Pillar of White's]27
[Beau Brummel in Retirement at Calais]35
[Sir Lumley Skeffington in a "Jean de Brie"]36
[Sir Lumley Skeffington, as dressed for the "Birthday Ball]40
[Robert Coates, the Amateur of Fashion, as "Romeo"]41
[Squire Mytton of Halston on his Bear]48
[Lord Petersham; a noble Aide-de-Camp]55
[The Eccentric Miss Banks, an Old Maid on a Journey]80
[The First Rothschild—a well-known Character on 'Change]96
[Hannah Snell, the Female Soldier]116
[Lady Archer, Enamelling at her Toilet]122
[The Alchemist]124
[Jack Adams, the Astrologer]130
[A Hermit of the Sixteenth Century]145
[Lady Eleanor Butler and Miss Mary Ponsonby, the Recluses of Llangollen] 156
[Major Peter Labelliere, a Christian Patriot]163
[Margaret Finch, the Norwood Gipsy]177
[Edward Irving, the Millenarian]184
[Joanna Southcote]198
[Facsimile of Autograph with Seal of the Elect]209
[William Huntington, the Converted Coalheaver]219
[The pretended Princess Caraboo]246
[Count Boruwlaski, the Polish Dwarf, in Disgrace with his Wife] 259
[The Prince Regent, a Back View]284
[Colonel Mellish and Buckle his Agent]294
[Curtis, an Old-Bailey Character]312
[Corder, the Murderer of Maria Martin]316
[Lord Coleraine, keeping an Apple Stall]321
[Nollekens, the Sculptor. From J. T. Smith's Life]350
[Master Betty, the "Young Roscius", as "Norval"]363
[Mrs. Garrick in her Youth] 374
[Charles Mathews the Elder]378
[Joe Grimaldi as Clown]382
[Liston as "Paul Pry"]391
[Edmund Kean as "Richard III."]398
[T. P. Cooke in "Black Eyed Susan"]404
[Charlotte Charke, Colley Cibber's Daughter]411
[M. G. Lewis, Author of "the Monk"]417
[Professor Porson]425
[Dr. Parr]435
[William Cobbett, Peter Porcupine and the "Political Register"]481
[Jedediah Buxton, the Calculator]490
[Lamb's Cottage, Colebrook Row]495
[Margaret Lucas, Duchess of Newcastle]516
[Lord Eldon (John Scott)]549

ENGLISH ECCENTRICS.

[WEALTH and FASHION.]

"Vathek" Beckford.

[The Beckfords and Fonthill.]