Produced by Marius Masi, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's notes: (1) Letters following a carat (^) were originally printed in superscript. (2) Side-notes were moved to their respective paragraph's start, and treated as titles. for the exact locations see the html version. (3) The following typographical errors have been corrected: Page i: "are useful in themselves, and are neatly and clearly." 'clearly' amended from 'cleary'. Page 8: "I have seen the ghastly illustrations to the licentious Contes Drolatiques of Balzac." 'Drolatiques' changed from 'Diolatiques'. Page 100: "Arrogance or Nonchalance of the Tenth Reported." 'Nonchalance' changed from 'Nonchalence'. Page 114: "In common fairness some credit should be conceded." 'conceded' changed from 'conceeded'. Page 115: "with a threat of further inquiry into its truth." 'further' changed from 'furthur'. Page 116: "This extraordinary work presents us with pictures." 'work' amended from 'works'. Page 117: "The King at Home, or Mathews at Carlton House." 'The' amended from 'the'. Page 206: "Professor Bates would assign as one of the principal causes of the sterility which befel the genius of Cruikshank." 'befell' amended from 'befel' Page 246: "who however is too firmly seated on his shoulders to be dislodged." 'dislodged' amended from 'disloged'. Page 330: "While at Whitby, a deputation from the Institute of that town waited on John Leech." 'Whitby' amended from 'Whity'. Page 349: "which does not show the care and thought which he bestowed upon its elaboration." Comma removed after 'upon'. Page 376: "stated anywhere, we shall now proceed to relate them. Thackeray was in London when Seymour shot himself in 1836." Comma after 'them' changed to period. APPENDIX V.: "Charles Lever's 'Harry Lorrequer.' 1839. (A pirated edition was published at Philadelphia, 1840.)" '1840' amended from '1804'. 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._