English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. / How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times.

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ENGLISH CARICATURISTS.
SOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
“At last we have a treatise upon our
caricaturists and comic draughtsmen
worthy 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 a number
of
political
occurrences,
scandals
public
and
private,
movements
political and secular, are passed in
review! All these events Mr. Everitt

describes
at
length
with
great
clearness and vivacity, giving us a
view of them, so to speak, from the
inside.”—Pall Mall Gazette.
“It is a handsome and important
volume of 400 pages; the letterpress
being 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 political history
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
some
valuable lists of publications, is
illustrated with about seventy wood
engravings.”—Literary World.
“A real contribution to the history
of the social life of the century. The
book
is
very
fully
and
well
illustrated, forming in fact quite a
gallery
of
nineteenth
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 they give a capital
idea of the originals from which they
are prepared.”—Saturday Review.
“Gives an elaborate estimate of the

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