“Deserves a place on every drawing-room table, and may not unfitly be removed from the drawing-room to the library.”—Spectator.
THE
WORKS OF JAMES GILLRAY, THE CARICATURIST.
With the Story of his Life and Times, and full and Anecdotal Descriptions of his Engravings.
Edited by THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq., M.A., F.S.A.
Illustrated with 83 full-page Plates, and very numerous Wood Engravings. Demy 4to, 600 pages, cloth extra, 31s. 6d.
“High as the expectations excited by this description [in the Introduction] may be, they will not be disappointed. With rare exception, no source of information has been neglected by the editor, and the most inquisitive or exacting reader will find ready gathered to his hand, without the trouble of reference, almost every scrap of narrative, anecdote, gossip, scandal, or epigram, in poetry or prose, that he can possibly require for the elucidation of the caricatures.”—Quarterly Review.
“The publishers have done good service in bringing so much that is full of humour and of historical interest within the reach of a large class.”—Saturday Review.
“One of the most amusing and valuable illustrations of the social and polished life of that generation which it is possible to conceive.”—Spectator.