deals with the London the author knew at its best and worst - its streets, theatres, inns, pawnshops, law courts, prisons, omnibuses and the river Thames - in honest and…

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back four thousand years, the poem of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, is the world’s oldest epic. The story tells of Gilgamesh’s adventures with the…

There must be no smiling with Cruikshank. A man who does not laugh outright is a dullard, and has no heart; even the old dandy of sixty must have laughed…

Title: The political House that Jack built. [Satires in verse.] With … cuts. Fifteenth edition.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the…

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…

A memoir of George Cruikshank (1891). This book, A memoir of George Cruikshank, by Frederic George Stephens, W. M. Thackeray, is a replication of a book originally published before 1891…

One of the important British graphic artists of the nineteenth century, George Cruikshank (1792-1878) illustrated over 860 books, including several by Charles Dickens, and produced a number of etchings, paintings…

This biography chronicles the life and work of George Cruikshank, the renowned British caricaturist and book illustrator of the early 19th century. Jerrold provides an intimate portrait of Cruikshank's personal…