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ENGLISH CARICATURISTS.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
“At last we have a treatise upon our caricaturists and comic draughtsmenworthy of the great subject.... An entertaining history of caricature,and consequently of the events, political and social, of the century;in fact, a thoroughly readable and instructive book.... And what anumber of political occurrences, scandals public and private, movementspolitical and secular, are passed in review! All these events Mr. Everittdescribes at length with great clearness and vivacity, giving us a view ofthem, so to speak, from the inside.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“It is a handsome and important volume of 400 pages; the letterpressbeing a brightly written commentary, abounding with illustrative gossip,on the caricature of the century and the merits of its graphic humourists....It includes a great deal of the more stirring social and politicalhistory of the time. The illustrations so plentifully strewn through Mr.Everitt’s volume give it a peculiar interest.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“The work, which contains a large amount of information and somevaluable lists of publications, is illustrated with about seventy wood engravings.”—LiteraryWorld.
“A real contribution to the history of the social life of the century. Thebook is very fully and well illustrated, forming in fact quite a gallery ofnineteenth century caricature.”—Truth.
“The plates with which it is illustrated are remarkably well produced,and are useful in themselves, and are neatly and clearly printed, so that theygive a capital idea of the originals from which they are prepared.”—SaturdayReview.
“Gives an elaborate estimate of the merits of the later caricaturists anda complete account of their lives.”—Graphic.
[Published 21st October, 1812, by S. W. Fores, 50, Piccadilly.
“A BUZ IN A BOX, OR THE POET IN A PET.”
Frontispiece.
English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.
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