George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank's Omnibus is a literary collection by George Cruikshank. Contents: My Portrait Monument to Napoleon Love has Legs Bernard Cavanagh, the Irish Cameleon The Ass on the Ladder Love's Masquerading and many more.

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269 copyright-free reproductions of etchings, woodcuts (eight in full color).

One of the most important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a vast number of etchings, paintings, and caricatures. The ten essays collected here first appeared in a special limited edition. In a new preface written for this paperback edition, Robert Patten shows how the insights of these seminal essays have been amplified by recent exhibitions and scholarship. The introduction by John Fowles has been retained and an index has been added. In addition to the many Cruikshank illustrations reproduced in the volume, there are original drawings by contemporary artists David Levine and Ronald Searle.