Humorous sketches and their dialogue captions, first printed in Bell’s Life in London in 1827 to 1829, drawn largely from George Cruikshank’s Illustrations of Time, his phrenology series and the Mornings at Bow Street police-court scenes, with work by his brother Robert and by Robert Seymour. Pickpockets, cockneys, dandies and magistrates trade slang-filled jokes.
A lively glimpse of Regency street humour and the cartoon tradition that fed Dickens. Download the free EPUB.