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Title: Old Coloured Books
Author: George Paston
Release Date: September 9, 2010 [EBook #33682]
Language: English
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OLD COLOURED BOOKS
[Illustration: THE REVD. DOCTOR SYNTAX]
OLD COLOURED
BOOKS
BY
GEORGE PASTON
WITH SIXTEEN COLOURED PLATES
METHUEN & CO.
36 ESSEX STREET W.C.
LONDON
_First Published in 1905_
CONTENTS
I
PAGE
RUDOLF ACKERMANN 3
THOMAS ROWLANDSON 5
WILLIAM COMBE 9
II
THE CRUIKSHANK BROTHERS 16
DAVID CAREY 21
CHARLES MOLLOY WESTMACOTT 23
PIERCE EGAN AND THEODORE LANE 26
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 28
III
HENRY ALKEN 32
CHARLES JAMES APPERLEY 35
ROBERT SMITH SURTEES 39
IV
The _Pickwick_ Illustrators
ROBERT SEYMOUR 41
ROBERT WILLIAM BUSS 43
HABLOT KNIGHT BROWNE 45
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
THE REV. DR. SYNTAX _Frontispiece_
From _The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of
the Picturesque_
DR. SYNTAX IN THE GLASS HOUSE 8
From _The Second Tour of Dr. Syntax in
Search of Consolation_
QUAE GENUS OFFICIATING AT A GAMING HOUSE 9
From _Johnny Quae Genus_
BY GAMBLERS LINKED IN FOLLY'S NOOSE 13
From _The Dance of Life_
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