In 1723 William Hogarth began what might have proved a notable career as a book-illustrator had not he soon found more profitable work. He illustrated the Travels of Aubry de la Mottraye in 1723, Briscoe's _Apuleius_ (1724), Cotterel's translation of _Cassandra_ (1725), Blackwell's _Compendium of Military Discipline_ (1726), and (also in 1726) Butler's _Hudibras_, his plates to which, though grotesque enough, show plenty of character. For some years after this he worked on frontispieces, e.g. to Leveridge's _Songs_ (1727), Cooke's _Hesiod_ (1728), J. Miller's comedy, _The Humours of Oxford_ (1729), Theobald's _Perseus and Andromeda_ (1730), and in 1731 to a Moliere, Fielding's _Tragedy of Tragedies_, and Mitchell's _Highland Fair_. But the success of his set of prints on "The Harlot's Progress" diverted him from bookwork, although many years after he contributed frontispieces to Vols. II and IV of _Tristram Shandy_, and in 1761 a head-and tailpiece (engraved by Grignion) to a Catalogue of the Society of Arts. In 1733 Hubert Gravelot was invited from France by Du Bosc to help in illustrating Picart's _Religious Ceremonies_. He illustrated Gay's _Fables_ in 1738, Richardson's _Pamela_ in 1742, Theobald's _Shakespeare_ in 1740, and, mainly after Hayman, Hanmer's in 1744-6. Neither of the sets of Shakespeare plates deserves any higher praise than that of being neat and pretty, but at least they were a whole plane above those in Rowe's edition. The year after Gravelot came to England, in 1733, Pine produced the first volume of his _Horace_, engraved throughout, and with head- and tailpieces in admirable taste. The second volume followed in 1737, and in 1753 the first of an illustrated _Virgil_ which Pine did not live to complete. Besides his work on Hanmer's _Shakespeare_, Francis Hayman designed illustrations to Moore's _Fables of the Female Sex_ (1744), which were well engraved, some of them by Charles Grignion, a pupil of Gravelot's, born in England (1717), but of foreign parentage. Hayman also illustrated the _Spectator_ (1747), Newton's _Milton_ (1749-52), and later on, with the aid of Grignion, Smollett's _Don Quixote_ (1755), and Baskerville's edition of Congreve's _Poems_ (1761). The plates to the earlier edition of _Don Quixote_, that of 1738, had been chiefly engraved by Gerard van der Gucht after Vanderbank, but two are by Hogarth. [Illustration: XL. LONDON, T. HOPE, 1760 WALTON, COMPLEAT ANGLER W. W. RYLANDS AFTER S. WALE]