“A set of caricatures such as we have in Mr. Wright’s volume brings the surface of the age before us with a vividness that no prose writer, even of the highest power, could emulate. Macaulay’s most brilliant sentence is weak by the side of the little woodcut from Gillray, which gives us Burke and Fox.”—Saturday Review.
“A more amusing work of its kind was never issued.”—Art Journal.
“It is emphatically one of the liveliest of books, as also one of the most interesting. It has the twofold merit of being at once amusing and edifying. The 600 odd pages which make up the goodly volume are doubly enhanced by some 400 illustrations, of which a dozen are full-page ones.”—Morning Post.
Large Paper Edition, 4to, only 100 printed, on extra fine paper, wide margins, for the lovers of choice books, with extra Portraits, half morocco (a capital book to illustrate). 30s.
A Companion Table Book to “Leech’s Sketches.”
MAIDEN HOURS AND MAIDEN WILES. Designed by “Beaujolais” (Captain Hans Busk). A Series of remarkably clever Sketches, showing the Occupations of a Fashionable Young Lady at All Hours of the Day. With appropriate Text. Folio, half morocco, blue and gold, gilt edges, 10s. 6d.
A Clever and Brilliant Book,
Companion to the “Bon Gaultier Ballads.”
PUCK ON PEGASUS. By H. Cholmondeley Pennell. In 4to, printed within an India-paper tone, and elegantly bound, gilt, gilt edges, price 10s. 6d. only.