Description: George Cruikshank - His Life and London byMichael Wynn Jones HLHLHLHLHLHLH London, UK: published by Macmillan London, 1978 (first edition). Hardcover. 10 x 7.5 in. 216 pages. Includes 101 black & white illustrations. Condition: very good. This is a lovely clean, bright, unmarked copy. The jacket is neatly enclosed in a removable protective plastic covering. HLHLHLHLHLHLH This book re-examines the artist George Cruikshank's career as one of the inimitable, but subsequently neglected, geniuses of the nineteenth century and reproduces a representative of his work. Extrovert and eccentric, George's behaviour was was a continual source of amusement, inspiration or embarrassment to his friends. His work chronicles nearly three-quarters of a century of London life - the duchesses and dandies, coal-heavers and pick-pockets, the outrageous fashions and appalling squalor, local corruption, traffic congestion and creeping suburbia.
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Book Title: George Cruikshank: His Life & London
Narrative Type: Non-Fiction
Publisher: Macmillan London
Original Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1978
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Author: Michael Wynn Jones
Features: Dust Jacket
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Cartoonists, Social History
Topic: Cartoonists, Biography, London, 19th Century
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
