THE LIFE
of
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
By BLANCHARD JERROLD
Illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
In Two Volumes—Volume Two
1882
Original Size -- Medium-Size
CONTENTS
THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
CHAPTER XI. THE COMIC ALMANAC.
CHAPTER XII. LORD BATEMAN AND THE TABLE BOOK.
CHAPTER I. AT GILLRAY’s GRAVE.
CHAPTER III. GEORGE CRUIKSHANK AS A TEETOTALER.
CHAPTER IV. THE TRIUMPH OF BACCHUS.
CHAPTER V. “FRAUDS ON THE FAIRIES” AND “WHOLEHOGS.”
CHAPTER VI. A SLICE OF BREAD AND BUTTER.
CHAPTER VII. CRUIKSHANK’S LAST TWENTY YEARS.
THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
EPOCH I. (continued).
CHAPTER XI. THE COMIC ALMANAC.
In 1835 the late Mr. Tilt, publisher, of Fleet Street, started the ComicAlmanac, and engaged George Cruikshank to illustrate it. It was a happyidea, exactly suited to the more popular side of the mood and genius ofthe artist; and Cruikshank entered upon his task with zest For nineteenyears this annual comic and satirical commentary on passing and probableevents, not only furnished him with a regular income, giving him work onwhich he might reckon with certainty in estimating his very fluctuatingresources; but it afforded him the opportunity, in which he alwaysdelighted, of recording in his own quaint, original manner, his opinionson the questions of the day.
