The Comic Blackstone. By Gilbert Abbot à Beckett, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Mr. G. A. à Beckett was fully qualified by his education as a barrister, and his practice as a Metropolitan Police Magistrate, to discourse learnedly of the law. He died in August, 1856.
In 1887 his son, Mr. Arthur W. à Beckett, brought out a new, and enlarged edition of The Comic Blackstone, with illustrations by Mr. Harry Furniss. This was also published by Bradbury, Agnew & Co.
Caricature History of the Georges; or, Annals of the House of Hanover, compiled by Thomas Wright, F. S. A. London: John Camden Hotten. Illustrated.
The original edition appeared as early as 1849, but Hotten’s later reprint was more complete.
“George the First vile was reckoned,
Viler still was George the Second.
And what mortal ever heard
Any good of George the Third?
When the last to Hell descended,
The Lord be praised the Georges ended!”