⁂ The object of this Work is to give Both Sides of the Story. The Artist has gone over the entire ground of Continental and English Caricatures for the last third of a century, and a very interesting book is the result.
CRUIKSHANK’S COMIC ALMANACK. A Nineteen Years’ gathering of the Best Humour, the Wittiest Sayings, the Drollest Quips, and the Best Things of Thackeray, Hood, Mayhew, Albert Smith, A’Beckett, Robert Brough, 1835–1853. With nearly Two Thousand Woodcuts and Steel Engravings by the inimitable Cruikshank, Hine, Landells, &c. Two Series, Crown 8vo, each of 600 pages, price 7s. 6d. each.
⁂ A most extraordinary gathering of the best wit and humour of the past half-century. Readers can purchase one Series and judge for themselves. The work forms a “Comic History of England” for twenty years.
Original Edition of the Famous JOE MILLER’S JESTS; the politest Repartees, most elegant Bon-Mots, and most pleasing short Stories in the English Language. London: printed by T. Read, 1739. Remarkable facsimile. 8vo, half morocco, price 9s. 6d.
⁂ ONLY A VERY FEW COPIES OF THIS HUMOROUS AND RACY OLD BOOK HAVE BEEN REPRODUCED.
HISTORY OF PLAYING CARDS. With Sixty curious Illustrations, 550 pp., price 7s. 6d.
“A highly interesting volume.”—Morning Post.
