The Comic Cruikshank

191 pp. Copiously illustrated with Cruikshank’s cartoons, including 4 pages in colour. Published on the bicentenary of the illustrator’s birth, the volume for the first time gathers the best of his comic drawings, including series like “The Comic Almanack”, “The Bachelor’s Own Book”, and “Zoological Fancies”, among others. Also includes writings on Cruikshank by Thackeray, Dickens, Ruskin, Baudelaire, and John Fowles.