1825.
1825. Bernard Blackmantle. The Spirit of the Public Journals for the Year 1824. With Explanatory Notes by C. M. Westmacott. With illustrations on wood by T. Rowlandson, R. and G. Cruikshank, Lane, and Findlay. London: Published by Sherwood, Jones, & Co., Paternoster Row.
Advertisement.—In the preliminary notice the editor, Mr. Westmacott, specially alludes to the assistance given by our artist: 'It is with some degree of pride the editor requests his reader's examination of the illustrations to this volume, combining as they do specimens of the first graphic humour of the time; not the least admirable of which are eleven original designs by the veteran Rowlandson, whose facetious pencil appears to acquire additional richness with his lengthened years. For these the editor is more indebted to personal friendship than motives of interest, and they are therefore in his estimation doubly valuable.'
Designs by T. Rowlandson.
Vignette to title.—A group of little Cupids, harnessed, and drawing a car of classic shape, loaded with contributions from the newspapers—
The choicest fancies, grave and gay,
They register'd from day to day.
Mrs. Ramsbottom in the Packet. ('Mrs. Ramsbottom's Tour,' John Bull.)
Ill-requited Love, or Miss Hannah Maria Juliana Shum. ('Sketches at Bow Street,' Herald.)
Two at a Time, or Irish Accidents. ('Sketches at Bow Street,' Bell's Life in London.)
The Petticoat Whip, or a Lift for Love. ('Sketches at Bow Street,' Bell's Life in London.)
The Charley's Mistake, or Royalty Doubly Endangered. (Bell's Life in London.)
Teddy the Tailor, or a Troublesome Customer. ('Sketches at Bow Street,' Bell's Life in London.)
The Man-of-War's Man, or Sketches of Society. ('Greenwich Hospital,' Literary Gazette.)
The Mayor of Portsmouth and the Horse Witness.
The Bold Dragoon, or the Adventure of my Grandfather. ('Tales of a Traveller,' News of Literature and Fashion.)
Sporting Extraordinary, or Cockney Comicalities. By Charley Eastup. (Annals of Sporting and Fashion.)
