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Caricature History of the Georges (House of Hanover). Very entertaining book of 640 pages, with 400 Pictures, Caricatures, Squibs, Broadsides, Window Pictures. By T. Wright, F.S.A. 7s. 6d.




 * ∗* Companion Volume to "History of Signboards." Reviewed in almost every English journal with highest approbation.

"A set of caricatures such as we have in Mr. Wright's volume brings the surface of the age before us with a vividness that no prose writer, even of the highest power, could emulate. Macaulay's most brilliant sentence is weak by the side of the little woodcut from Gillray which gives us Burke and Fox."—Saturday Review.

"A more amusing work of its kind never issued from the press."—Art Journal.

"This is one of the most agreeable and interesting books of the season."—Public Opinion.

"It seems superfluous to say that this is an entertaining book. It is indeed one of the most entertaining books we have read for a long time. It is history teaching by caricature. There is hardly an event of note, hardly a personage of mark, hardly a social whimsey worth a moment's notice, which is not satirised and illustrated in these pages. We have here the caricaturists from Hogarth to Gillray, and from Gillray to Cruikshank."—Morning Star.

"It is emphatically one of the liveliest of books, as also one of the most interesting. It has the twofold merit of being at once amusing and edifying. The 600 odd pages which make up the goodly volume are doubly enhanced by some 400 illustrations, of which a dozen are full-page engravings."—Morning Post.

"Mr. Thomas Wright is so ripe a scholar, and is so rich in historical reminiscences, that he cannot fail to make an interesting book on any subject he undertakes to illustrate. He has achieved a success on the present occasion."—Press.

Notice.—Large-paper Edition. 4to, only 100 printed, on extra fine paper, wide margins for the lovers of choice books, with extra Portraits, half-morocco (a capital book to illustrate), 30s.

Romance of the Rod: an Anecdotal History of the Birch in Ancient and Modern Times. With some quaint illustrations. Crown 8vo, handsomely printed.