Edited by Laman Blanchard, this miscellany pairs Cruikshank’s steel etchings and woodcuts with comic sketches, verses and squibs. Its pieces include his own mock portrait, a lament for his last pair of Hessian boots, the series of Frights, commentaries on the new police act, and the serial adventure of Frank Heartwell, a tale of the sea set fifty years earlier.
A window onto early Victorian humour from the illustrator of Dickens, with period caricatures that now read uncomfortably. Download the free EPUB.