ODD VOLUME;
OR, BOOK OF VARIETY
By Various
Illustrated By Robert Seymour and Robert Cruikshank
The Engravings by Samuel Slader
1835
Original Size
Original Size
CONTENTS
INCONVENIENCIES RESULTING FROM BEING HANGED.
THE NEW “BEAUTY AND THE BEAST.”
TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. FORTY YEARS AGO.
PREFACE.
Emboldened by the popularity of the late entertainment, entitled“Cruikshank at Home,” an Odd Candidate for fame now enters the lists.
The greatest care having been taken to render the subjects which have beenselected as interesting as possible, this Volume may safely be pronouncedeven more attractive than either of its predecessors; and thepublisher has the additional pleasure of announcing that the Engravingsare the joint production of two clever artists—the one, Mr.Cruikshank, a long-established favorite *—the other, Mr. Seymour, agentleman of far superior talent, but hitherto not quite, perhaps, soexte