The Humourist (4 vols., 1819-20).
_German Popular Stories_ (2 vols., 1823-4).
_Points of Humour_ (2 vols., 1823-4).
_Mornings at Bow Street_ (1824).
_Greenwich Hospital_ (1826).
_More Mornings at Bow Street_ (1827).
Phrenological Illustrations (1826).
Illustrations of Time (1827).
_Scraps and Sketches_ (4 parts and one plate of an
unpublished 5th part, 1828-9, 1831-2, 1834).
_My Sketch Book_ (9 numbers, with plates dated 1833, 1834, 1835).
_Punch and Judy_ (1828).
_Three Courses and a Dessert_ (1830).
_Cruikshankiana_ (1835).
_The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman_ (1839).
_George Cruikshank's Omnibus_ (9 parts, 1841-2).
The Bachelor's Own Book (1844).
_George Cruikshank's Table Book_ (12 numbers, 1845).
George Cruikshank's Fairy Library (4 parts, 1853-4, 1864).
George Cruikshank's Magazine (2 numbers, 1854).
This list reminds us that, though Cruikshank often conferred a
bibliophile's immortality upon authors more "writative," to quote the
Earl of Rochester, than inspired, he was sometimes the means of
arresting great literary merit on its way to oblivion. A case in point
is William Clarke's "Three Courses and a Dessert," a book of racy
stories containing droll and exquisite cuts by Cruikshank, after rude
sketches by its author, who did Cruikshank the service of accusing
him in "The Cigar" (1825) of being stubbornly modest for half an hour.
Again, we owe to Cruikshank our knowledge of "The Adventures of Sir
Frizzle Pumpkin; Nights at Mess; and Other Tales" (1836), a work of
which I will only say that its anonymous narrative of good luck in
cowardice won a smile from one of the most lovable of poets on the day
she died.
[Illustration: "The Turk's only daughter approaches to mitigate the
sufferings of Lord Bateman." "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman," 1839.]
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