"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 merits of the later caricaturists and a complete account of their lives."--_Graphic._ [Illustration: _Published 21st October, 1812, by_ S. W. FORES, 50, _Piccadilly_. "A BUZ IN A BOX, OR THE POET IN A PET." _Frontispiece._] ENGLISH CARICATURISTS AND GRAPHIC HUMOURISTS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. _A Contribution to the History of Caricature from the Time of the First Napoleon Down to the Death of John Leech, in 1864._ BY GRAHAM EVERITT. SECOND EDITION. [Illustration] London: SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. 1893. BUTLER & TANNER, THE SELWOOD PRINTING WORKS, FROME, AND LONDON. PREFACE. The only works which, so far as I know, profess to deal with English caricaturists and comic artists of the nineteenth century are two in number. The first is a work by the late Robert William Buss, embodying the substance of certain lectures delivered by the accomplished author many years ago. Mr. Buss's book, which was published for private circulation only, deals more especially with the work of James Gillray, his predecessors and contemporaries, treating only briefly and incidentally of a few of his successors of our own day. The second is a work by Mr. James Parton, an American author, whose book (published by Harper Brothers, of New York) treats of "Caricature, and other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands." It is obviously no part of my duty (even if I felt disposed to do so) to criticise the work of a brother scribe, and that scribe an American gentleman. Covering an area so boundless in extent, it is scarcely surprising that Mr. Parton should devote only thirty of his pages to the consideration of English caricaturists and graphic humourists of the nineteenth century.