The Works of George Cruikshank, 1792-1878

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Rumpel-Stilts-Kin from German Popular Stories (1823)

From The Brothers Grimm, German Popular Stories (1823)

• The Elves and the Shoe-maker from German Popular Stories (1823)
• Illustration on Half-title-page from German Popular Stories (1823)
• The King of the Golden Mountain from German Popular Stories (1823)
• Title-page Vignette from German Popular Stories (1823)

The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner by Daniel Defoe (John Major Edition, 1831)

• 1. Cannibals dancing around a fire on the beach (frontis)
• 2. Young Crusoe and his Father (Ch. 1)
• 3. Crusoe tosses the Moorish deckhand overboard
• 4. Crusoe sights a Portuguese vessel
• 5. Crusoe clinging to a rock on the beach
• 6. Crusoe salvaging cargo from the shipwreck
• 7. Crusoe hunting goats
• 8. Crusoe and his calendar on the beach
• 9. "Jesus, . . . give me repentance."
• 10. Crusoe and his Hut
• 11. Crusoe builds a large, dugout canoe.
• 12. Crusoe circumnavigating the island
• 13. Crusoe and Poll the Parrot in dialogue
• 14. Friday's Footprint — Crusoe discovers a human footprint on the beach.
• 15. Crusoe discovers a dying goat in a cave.
• 16. Cannibals dancing around a fire on the beach
• 17. Crusoe and Friday watch the Cannibals from hiding
• 18. Crusoe and Friday encounter the captain of a British ship whose crew have mutinied
• 19. Friday and the Bear out on a limb
• 20. Crusoe and his Comrades repelling a massive Wolf attack
• 21. Riderless horse after his rider was attacked by wolves (tailpiece)

From Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

• 22. Crusoe, his wife and child on their farm in Bedfordshire
• 23. Crusoe sees a ship on fire at sea
• 24. The French survivors of the fire aboard the Quebec Merchantman
• 25. Friday and his Father
• 26. A Spaniard with a shovel comes to the assistance of an Indian attacked by a hatchet-wielding English colonist
• 27. Will Atkins leading his men against attacking aborigines
• 28. Crusoe distributing agricultural implements
• 29. Crusoe presents a Bible to Will Atkins and his native wife
• 30. Islanders attack Crusoe's ship, killing Friday
• 31. Crusoe attempting to halt the slaughter of villagers on Madagascar
• 32. Crusoe's ship pursued in the Malacca Straits
• 33. Fighting off the attackers with boiling oil
• 34. The ill-mounted Mandarin riding through Tartary
• 35. The Mandarin being fed by his female servants
• 36. Crusoe, regaining consciousness, sees the dead Tartar.
• 37. The destruction of a Tartar idol with tar and gunpowder.
• 38. The Europeans fire a withering volley at the charging Tartar horde in Russia. (tailpiece)

The Frontispieces for the 1831 Edition

• 39. Volume One: Robinson Crusoe's first interview with Friday
• 40. Volume Two: Will Atkins and his native Wife

The Novelist's Library, ed. Thomas Roscoe (London: James Cochrane, 1832)

• The unexpected Visit of the fine Ladies from Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield (1832)
• The Gross of Green Spectacles from The Vicar of Wakefield (1832)
• Obadiah leading in Dr. Slop from Tristram Shandy (1832)
• My Uncle Toby on his hobby-horse from Tristram Shandy (1832)
• The Long-nosed Stranger at Strasburg from Tristram Shandy (1832)
• The Alarm of Crowe & Fillet at the appearance of Sir Launcelot from Launcelot Greaves (1832)
• Dawdles' Victory over Capt. Crowe from Launcelot Greaves (1832)
• Parson Adams and the Hog's Puddings from Joseph Andrews (1832)
• Adams's​ Visit to Parson Trulliber from Joseph Andrews (1832)
• The Ambassador from Joseph Andrews (1832)
• Beau Diddapper from Joseph Andrews (1832)
• Humphry's Introduction to the Bramble Family from Humphry Clinker (1831)
• Humphry's Disaster from Humphry Clinker (1831)
• Humphry's Zeal for His Mastery from Humphry Clinker (1831)
• Lismahago's Retaliation from Humphry Clinker (1831)

Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838)

• Frontispiece: Joseph Grimaldi facing title-page
• Joe's debut into the Pit at Sadler's Wells. facing p. 11
• Master Joey going to visit his Godpapa. facing p. 13
• The Wager. facing p. 72
• A startling effect. facing p. 83
• Mr. Mackintosh's covey. facing p. 110
• Live Properties. facing p. 156
• Appearing in Public. facing p. 177
• The Barber's Shop. facing p. 201
• Grimaldi's kindness to the Giants. facing p. 221
• The last Song. facing p. 245

Charles Dickens's Sketches by Boz (August 1836 through June 1839)

• Half-title Vignette
• Frontispiece and Half-title Vignette (Second Series: Macrone, 1836)

"Our Parish"

• The Election for Beadle Frontispiece (originally 8 February 1836)
• The Parish Engine facing p. 1
• The Broker's Man facing p. 18
• Our Next-Door Neighbour facing p. 30

"Scenes"

• The Streets, Morning facing p. 36
• Scotland Yard facing p. 47
• Seven Dials facing p. 51
• Monmouth Street facing p. 54
• Hackney Coach Stands facing p. 60
• London Recreations — The 'Tea-Gardens' facing p. 67
• Greenwich Fair facing p. 86

• Private Theatres facing p. 88
• Vauxhall Gardens by Day facing p. 93
• Early Coaches facing p. 97
• The Last Cab-Driver facing p. 104
• Public Dinners facing p. 120
• The First of May facing p. 125
• The Gin-Shop facing p. 134
• The Pawnbroker's Shop facing p. 138

"Characters"

• Thoughts about People [The Poor Clerk] facing p. 159
• Jemima Evans facing p. 170
• A Pickpocket in Custody facing p. 19
• Mr. John Dounce facing p. 181
• The Dancing Academy facing p. 190
• Making a Night of it facing p. 198

"Tales"

• The Boarding-House facing p. 205
• The Boarding-House. — II facing p. 233
• Mr. Minns and his Cousin facing p. 234
• Sentiment [Theodosius Introduced to the New Pupil] facing p. 242
• The Tuggses at Ramsgate facing p. 251
• Horatio Sparkins facing p. 267
• Steam Excursion. — I facing p. 288
• Steam Excursion — II facing p. 303
• The Winglebury Duel [Under Restraint] facing p. 305
• Mrs. Joseph Porter [Mr. Sempronius Gattleton as Othello] facing p. 319
• Watkins Tottle [The Courtship of Mr. Parsons] facing p. 326
• The Lock-up house facing p. 340
• Mr. Watkins Tottle and Miss Lillerton facing p. 346
• Bloomsbury Christening facing p. 355
• The Wrapper for "Sketches by Boz" serialised
• The Free-and-Easy" for "The Streets — Night" (Macrone, 1836; cancelled in the 1839 edition)
• The Macrone 1836-37 Cover and Title-page for "Sketches by Boz" (1836-37)
• The Chapman & Hall Title-page for "Sketches by Boz" (1839).

Dickens's Adventures of Oliver Twist (February 1837 through April 1839)

• Title-page of the 1846 revised edition
• Oliver asking for more (Frontispiece from 1846 edition)
• Oliver Twist escapes being bound apprentice to the sweep
• Oliver plucks up a spirit
• Oliver Twist introduced to the respectable old gentleman
• Oliver amazed at the Dodger's mode of going to work
• Oliver recovering from fever
• Oliver claimed by his affectionate friends
• Oliver's reception by Fagin and the boys
• Master Bates explains a professional technicality
• The burglary
• Mr. Bumble and Mrs. Corney taking tea
• Mr. Claypole as he appeared when his master was out
• Oliver Twist found wounded at Mrs. Maylie's door
• Oliver waited on by the Bow Street runners
• Reappearance of Monks and the Jew
• Mr. Bumble degraded in the eyes of the paupers

• The evidence destroyed
• Mr. Fagin and his pupil recovering Nancy
• The Jew and Morris Bolter begin to understand each other
• The meeting at London Bridge
• Sikes attempting to destroy his dog
• The last chance
• Fagin in the condemned cell
• The memorial tablet to Agnes
• Oliver Twist with the Maylie family — The Fireside or Cancelled Plate
• Title-page of 1838 3-volume edition published by Bentley
• Wrapper for 1846 Bradbury and Evans monthly numbers
• Hand-tinted Wrapper for 1846 re-serialisation
• Watercolour version of the 1846 Wrapper for F. W. Cosens (1866)
• First page of 1836 pirated edition
• The opening page of Bos's January 1838 piracy
• The frontispiece of the Cheap Edition of Oliver Twist (1850)
• Detail of Bumble and Oliver from the 1846 Wrapper

William Harrison Ainsworth's Rookwood. A Romance (1836)

• The Old Manse (title-page vignette)
• The Vault.
• Rescue of Lady Rookwood.
• Sybil and Barbara Lovel.
• The Inauguration.
• The Bridal.
• The Arbour at Kilburn.
• The Hornsey Gate.
• Turpin's flight through Edmonton.
• "I'll let 'em see what I think of 'em!"
• Death of Black Bess.
• Death of Lady Rookwood.

William Harrison Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard (1839)

Volume One

• W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq. (Portrait of the Author)
• Mr. Wood offers to adopt little Jack Sheppard
• Jonathan Wild discovers Darrell in the loft
• The Murder on the Thames
• The Storm
• The Name on the Beam
• "May be cursed if I ever try to be honest again."
• Jack Sheppard exhibits a vindictive character
• Jack Sheppard accuses Thames Darrell of Theft

Volume Two

• Jack Sheppard committing the Robbery in Willesden Church
• Jack Sheppard gets drunk, and orders his Mother off
• Jack Sheppard's escape from Willesden Cage
• Mrs. Sheppard expostulating with her Son
• Jack Sheppard and Blueskin in Mr. Wood's Bedroom
• Jack Sheppard and Edgeworth Bess escaping from Clerkenwell Prison
• Audacity of Jack Sheppard
• Jack Sheppard visits his Mother in Bedlam
• Jack Sheppard escaping from the Condemned Hold in Newgate

Volume Three

• The Portrait, facing the title-page, Volume 3
• Jonathan Wild throwing Sir Rowland Trenchard down the Well
• Jack Sheppard tricking Shotbolt the Gaoler
• The Escape, No. I
• __________, No. II

• __________, No. III
• Jonathan Wild seizing Jack Sheppard at his Mother's Grave
• Jack Sheppard's irons knocked off in Newgate
• The Procession from Newgate to Tyburn
• The Last Scene
• Title-page, Volume One
• Title-page, Volume Two
• Title-page, Volume Three
• The Triple-Decker Format
• The Ornamental Tailpiece: Jack Sheppard's Grave-marker

William Harrison Ainsworth's The Tower of London (1840)

• The Execution of Lady Jane Grey at Tower Green Frontispiece
• The Execution of Lord Guildford Dudley onTower Hill Title-page vignette
• The Warders' Hall, near the By-wardTower "Preface," wood-engraving

• The Gate Tower wood-engraving
• Initial Letter wood-engraving
• Queen Jane's Entrance to The Tower steel-engraving
• The Stone Kitchen wood-engraving
• The Stone Kitchen steel-engraving
• Queen Jane's First Night in the Tower steel-engraving
• The By-ward Tower wood-engraving
• Initial Word wood-engraving
• Interior of St. Peter's Chapel wood-engraving
• Interior of the By-ward Tower wood-engraving
• Edward Underhill the Hot Gospeller steel-engraving
• Cuthbert Cholmondeley surprised by a​mysterious figure in the dungeon adjoining the Devilin Tower steel-engraving
• The Traitor's Gate wood-engraving
• Interior of the Bowyer Tower wood-engraving
• The White Tower wood-engraving
• Queen Jane interposing between Northumberlandand Simon Renard steel-engraving
• St. Thomas's, or Traitor's Tower, from theThames wood-engraving
• Magog's Courtship steel-engraving
• Queen Jane's flight from the Tower steel-engraving
• Jane Grey and Lord Gilbert Dudley brought back to​the Tower through Traitors' Gate steel-engraving
• The Summit of The White Tower wood-engraving
• Initial Letter wood-engraving
• Queen Mary receiving the prisoners on the TowerGreen steel-engraving
• The Brick Tower wood-engraving
• Jane imprisoned in the Brick Tower steel-engraving
• Simon Renard and Winwike the warder on theroof of the White Tower steel-engraving
• Interior of the Cradle Tower wood-engraving
• The Plan of the Tower of London in 1553 steel-engraving
• Interior of St. John's Chapel in the White Towerwood-engraving
• The Duke of Northumberland Renouncing the ProtestantReligion steel-engraving
• Exterior of the Cradle Tower wood-engraving
• Mauger Sharpening his Axe steel-engraving
• Northumberland's Inscription in the Beauchamp Tower wood-engraving
• Execution of The Duke of Northumberland upon Tower Hill steel-engraving
• West View of the Beauchamp Tower wood-engraving
• Beauchamp Tower from the East wood-engraving
• Bishop Gardiner's Conference with Jane in the Beauchamp Tower steel-engraving

• Mess-room in the Beauchamp Tower wood-engraving
• Dungeon Beneath the Devlin Tower wood-engraving
• Interior of the Devlin Tower — Basement wood-engraving
• Cholmondeley discovering the body of Alexia in the Devlin Tower steel-engraving
• North View of the Salt Tower wood-engraving
• Masque in the Palace Garden of the Tower steel-engraving
• Queen Mary surprising Courtenay and the Princess Elizabeth steel-engraving
• Queen Mary at the instance of Simon Renard affiancing herself to Philip of Spain steel-engraving
• Secret Staircase in the Salt Tower wood-engraving
• Chamber in the Salt Tower wood-engraving
• Arched Door in the Salt Tower Communicating with Secret Staircase wood-engraving
• Tower leading to the Iron Gate wood-engraving
• Lawrence Nightgall Dragging Cicely Down the secret stairs in the Salt Tower steel-engraving
• West View of the Traitor's Tower wood-engraving
• The Bell Tower wood-engraving
• Courtenay's escape from the Tower steel-engraving
• The Menagerie wood-engraving
• Gog extricating Xit from the Bear in the Lions Tower steel-engraving
• South View of St. Peter's Chapel on the Green wood-engraving
• The Burning of Edward Underhill on the Tower Green steel-engraving
• The Gateway of the Bloody Tower wood-engraving
• Fekenham offering Jane a pardon, on the way to Trial steel-engraving
• Lower Chamber in the Constable Tower wood-engraving
• Xit wedded to the "Scavenger's Daughter" wood-engraving
• Upper Chamber in the Constable Tower wood-engraving
• Roof of the Broad Arrow Tower wood-engraving
• Council Chamber in the White Tower wood-engraving
• Basement Chamber in the Salt Tower wood-engraving
• The Lieutenant's Lodgings wood-engraving

• Sir Thomas Wyatt dictating terms to Queen Mary in the Council steel-engraving
• The Brass Mount wood-engraving
• Attack on the Brass Mount by Lord Guildford Dudley steel-engraving
• Attack upon St. Thomas's Tower by the Duke of Suffolk steel-engraving
• West View of the Middle Tower wood-engraving
• Sir Thomas Wyatt attacking the Byward Tower steel-engraving
• Casemate in the Brass Mount wood-engraving
• South-east View of the Jewel Tower wood-engraving
• Interior of the Hall Tower wood-engraving
• Jane imploring Mary to spare her Husband's life wood-engraving
• Elizabeth brought Prisoner to the Tower steel-engraving

• South Side of the Room in which the Young Princes were Murdered wood-engraving
• Passage in the Bloody Tower by which the Murderers approached wood-engraving
• North Side of the Room in which the Princes were Murdered wood-engraving
• The Death-Warrant steel-engraving
• North View of the Bloody Tower wood-engraving
• Upper Chamber in the Bell Tower wood-engraving
• Elizabeth confronted with Wyat in the Torture-Chamber steel-engraving
• Staircase in the North-eastern Turret of the White Tower wood-engraving
• The Fate of Nightgall steel-engraving
• Chamber in the Martin, or Jewel Tower wood-engraving
• Basement Chamber in the Flint Tower wood-engraving

• Entrance Hall in the Martin, or Jewel Tower wood-engraving
• Eastern Drawbridge wood-engraving
• Xit, now Sir Narcissus Le Grand, entertaining his friends on his wedding-day steel-engraving
• Bret's head stuck upon a spike (uncaptioned) wood-engraving
• The Night before the Execution steel-engraving
• Jane meeting the body of her husband on her way to the Scaffold steel-engraving
• The Block and Axe: Thus ends the Chronicle of the Tower of London wood-engraving.

William Harrison Ainsworth's Windsor Castle (1842-43)

• Portrait of Ainsworth by Daniel Maclise
• Illustrated Title-page
• *The Meeting of Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn
• *The Banquet in Saint George's Hall
• *The Meeting in the Cloisters of Saint George's Chapel
• *The Royal Chase in Windsor Forrest

• Henry's Reconciliation with Anne Boleyn
• Herne the Hunter Plunging into the Lake
• The Visit to Tristram Lyndwood's Cottage
• The Vision of the Fair Geraldine
• Mabel Lyndwood Interceding for Wyat with Henry
• The Search for Herne the Hunter
• Herne the Hunter Appearing to Henry on the Terrace
• The Quarrel in the Kitchen of the Castle
• The Disappearance of Herne in the Curfew Tower
• The Dismissal of Cardinal Wolsey
• Herne Flying into the Burning Woods with Mabel
• Anne Boleyn Receiving Proof of Henry's Passion for Jane Seymour
• Henry Perceiving Norris Take up Anne Boleyn's Handkerchief at the Jousts
• The Signal

William Harrison Ainsworth's Guy Fawkes, (1840-41

• Frontispiece: Execution of Guy Fawkes
• Guy Fawkes in Ordsall Cave
• Guy Fawkes discovers Doctor Dee & Edward Kelley disinterring the body of Elizabeth Orton
• Doctor Dee in conjunction with his Seer Edward Kelley, Exhibiting His Magical Skill to Guy Fawkes
• Guy Fawkes and Humphrey Chetham rescuing Father Oldcorne & Viviana Radcliffe from the Pursuivant
• Vision of Guy Fawkes at Saint Winifred's Well
• Guy Fawkes preventing Sir William Radcliffe from joining the Conspiracy
• Doctor Dee resuscitating Guy Fawkes
• Guy Fawkes protecting Humphrey Chetham from Catesby
• Viviana Radcliffe imploring Guy Fawkes to abandon the Conspiracy
• Guy Fawkes and Catesby landing the Powder
• Guy Fawkes and the other Conspirators alarmed while digging the mine
• Guy Fawkes laying the train
• Guy Fawkes keeping watch upon Tresham and Lord Mounteagle
• Viviana examined by the Earl of Salisbury and the Privy Council in the Star Chamber
• Guy Fawkes arrested by Sir Thomas Knevet and Topcliffe
• Guy Fawkes interrogated by King James the First
• Guy Fawkes subscribing his Examination after the torture
• The Explosion at Holbeach
• The Death of Catesby
• Death of Viviana
• The Discovery of Garnet and Oldcorne at Hendlip.

William Harrison Ainsworth's The Miser's Daughter: A Tale (1842)

• Frontispiece: The Miser discovering the loss of the mortgage money
• Randulph Crew delivering the packet to Mr. Scarve
• Randulph Crew introduced to Beau Villiers on the Mall
• Sir Bulkeley Price bringing the mortgage money to Mr. Scarve
• Hilda's visit to Abel Beechcroft
• The Folly on the Thames
• Randulph's interview with Cordwell Firebras in the Cloisters of Westminster Abbey
• Randulph refusing to drink the King's health "over the water."
• The Jacobite Club pursued by the guard
• Mr. Cripps encountering his Master in Mary-le-bone Gardens
• The Masquerade in Ranelagh gardens

• Randulph and Hilda dancing at Ranelagh
• The Supper at Vauxhall
• The Duel in Tothill Fields
• The discovery of the mysterious packet
• Randulph defending himself against Philip Frewin and his myrmidons
• Mr. Cripps detected
• Abel Beechcroft discovering the body of the Miser in the cellar
• Dispersion of the Jacobite Club and death of Cordwell Firebras
• The Marriage of Randulph and Hilda

From​ Harriet Beecher Stowe's​Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

• Eliza Crosses the Ohio on the Floating Ice
• Eva's Last Gifts
• Topsy with Miss Ophelia's Wardrobe

Dickens's​ Mudfog Papers (1837-38)

• Tom Twigger in the Kitchen of Mudfog Hall, Part 1
• Automaton Police Officer and the Real Offenders,​ ​ "Second Report"

From W. H. Maxwell's​ The​ History of the​ Irish Rebellion, 1798 (1845)

• The King's drum shall never be beaten for Rebels
• Rebels destroying a house and furniture
• The Reverend McGhee's house successfully defended against the Rebels
• The Murder of Lord Kilwarden

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library (1865)

"Hop-O'-My-Thumb" (1853)

• Frontispiece: The Father proposes to lose the Children!!!
• Title-page: George Cruikshank's Fairy Library
• Hop-O'-My-Thumb and His Brothers: Three Scenes
• Hop leads his Brothers out of the Wood
• Hop-O'-My-Thumb puts on the Seven League Boots
• Hop-O'-My-Thumb arrives at home before his brothers
• The Giant Ogre discovers Hop's my Thumb & his Brothers whom his wife had endeavoured to conceal from him. (facing p. 20)
• The Giant Ogre in his Seven-league Boots pursuing Hop-O'-My-Thumb & his Brothers who hide in a Cave. (facing p. 24).
• The Giant Ogre falls asleep. Hop-O'-My-Thumb pulls off the Seven League Boots whilst his Brothers run away. (facing p. 26).
• Hop-O'-My-Thumb presenting the Seven League Boots to the King. (facing p. 28)

"Jack and the Bean-stalk" (1854)

• Jack and the Beanstalk: Three scenes. (facing p. 28)
• Jack shows kindness to a poor old woman.
• who turns out to be a Fairy . . . and,
• who gives him the Wonderful Bean which he sets in the Garden.
• Jack, climbing the Bean Stalk. (facing p. 15)
• Jack gets the Golden Hen away from the Giant. (facing p. 19)
• Jack and the Fairy Harp, escaping from the Giant.(facing p. 24)
• The Fairies tie the Giant up in the Bean Stalk. (facing p. 26)
• Jack brings the Giant prisoner to King Alfred. (facing p. 30)

"Cinderella and The Glass Slipper" (1854)

• Cinderella in the Chimney-Corner.
• Cinderella scouring the Pots and Kettles. (facing p. 8)

• Cinderella helping her Sisters to Dress for the Royal Ball. (facing p. 8)
• The Pumpkin, and the Rat, and the Mice, and the Lizards . . .. (facing p. 13)
• The Fairy changing Cinderella's Kitchen dress into a beautiful Ball dress!!! (facing p. 13)
• The Prince, picking up Cinderella's Glass Slipper. (facing p. 19)
• Cinderella, leaving the Royal Palace after the Clock had Struck Twelve! (facing p. 19)
• The Heralds proclaiming the Prince's wish, that all the Single Ladies shoiuld try on the Glass Slipper! (facing p. 20)
• Cinderella having fitted on the Glass Slipper produces its Fellow. (facing p. 20)
• The Marriage of Cinderella to The Prince. (facing p. 26)

"Puss in Boots" (1864)

• Tom Puss, consoling his Master, and asking for a Pair of Boots & a suit of Clothes. (facing p. 2)
• Tom Puss, catching a Rabbit..in the Rabbit Warren. (facing p. 8)
• Tom Puss presenting a Rabbit to the King..on the Royal Podium. (facing p. 8)
• Tom Puss telling the King that his Master .. the Marquiss of Carabas, is in the River. (facing p. 12)
• Tom Puss, after his Master is dressed, introduces him to the King as the Marquess of Cambio. (facing p. 12)
• Tom Puss commands the Reapers to tell the King that All the fields belong to the Most Noble, the Marquess of Cambio. (facing p. 14)
• The Orgre's transformations: Three scenes. (facing p. 16)
• The Ogre turns himself into an Elephant...Tom pretends to be frightened. (facing p. 16)
• The Ogre turns himself into a Lion! Tom Puss is still more frightened & asks the Ogre to turn into a Mouse. (facing p. 16)
• The Ogre turns himself into a Mouse .. Tom Puss springs upon him and kills him!
• Tom Puss receiving the King .. the Princess & his Master at the Castle. (facing p. 22)
• The Wedding Feast, and Tom Puss making a Speech!)
• Blue cover with decorated spine for George Cruikshank's Fairy Library
• George Cruikshank applies his tongs to the nose of Brooks the publisher

George Cruikshank's The Bottle (1847)

• The Bottle is brought out for the first time: The husband induces his wife "Just to take a drop."
• He Is Discharged from His Employment for Drunkenness: They Pawn Their Clothes to Supply the Bottle.
• An Execution Sweeps Off the Greater Part of Their Furniture: They Comfort Themselves with the Bottle.
• Unable to Obtain Employment, They Are Driven by Poverty into the Streets to Beg, and by This Means They Still Supply the Bottle.
• Cold, Misery, and Want, Destroy Their Youngest Child: They Console Themselves with the Bottle.
• Fearful Quarrels, and Brutal Violence, Are the Natural Consequences of the Frequent Use of the Bottle.
• The husband, in a State of Furious Drunkenness, Kills His Wife with the Instrument of All Their Misery.
• The Bottle Has Done Its Work — It Has Destroyed the Infant and the Mother, It Has Brought the Son and the Daughter to Vice and to the Streets, and Has Left the Father a Hopeless Maniac.

George Cruikshank's The Drunkard's Children (1848)

• Neglected by Their Parents, . . .They Are Led to the Gin Shop. . .
• Between the Fine Flaring Gin Palace and the Low Dirty Beer Shop, the Boy Thief Squanders and Gambles Away His Ill-Gotten Gains
• From the Gin Shop to the Dancing Rooms, . . . the Poor Girl is Driven on . . . .
• Urged on by His Ruffian Companions, . . . He Commits a Desperate Robbery.
• From the Bar of the Gin Shop to the Bar of the Old Bailey It Is But One Step
• The Drunkard's Son is Sentenced to Transportation for Life. . . .
• Early Dissipation Has Destroyed the Neglected Boy. . . .
• . . . the Poor Girl, Homeless, Friendless and Deserted, Destitute, and Gin-mad Commits Self Murder

Other Works (1814-1851)

• Unwelcome Intruders from Moore's Annals of Gallantry, 1814
• King George IV, 1820
• King George IV as the Prince of Wales from William Hone, The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder, 1820
• George Cruikshank and William Hone's satirical Bank Restriction Note (1820)
• I perceived him loosening my shadow from Chamisso's Peter Schlemihl, 1866 edition
• Tell Tale from Scraps and Sketches
• Sheppard visits his Mother in Bedlam (Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard, 1839)
• Our Library Table from Ainsworth's Magazine (1842)
• The Ragged School in West Street (1845)
• Social ornithology (1845)
• Social zoology (1845)
• Dick Turpin's Ride to York (Ainsworth's Rookwood, 1846)
• The Cat Did It from The Greatest Plague of Life (1847)
• "It's my cousin, ma'am." from The Greatest Plague of Life (1847)
• 1851, or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys (1851)

Bibliography

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Guy Fawkes, or The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance. With 22 illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Cunningham & Mortimer, 1841 (first edition). Rpt., London: George Routledge & Sons, n. d.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Jack Sheppard. A Romance. With 28 illustrations by George Cruikshank. In three volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1839.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. The Miser's Daughter: A Tale. With 20 illustrations by George Cruikshank. First published in 3 volumes by Cunningham and Mortimer, London, 1842. London, Glasgow, and New York: George Routledge, 1892.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Rookwood, A Romance. With 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: William Bentley and John Macrone, 1836. Rpt. 1882.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. The Tower of London. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Richard Bentley, 1840.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Windsor Castle. An Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank and Tony Johannot. With designs on wood by W. Alfred Delamotte. London: Routledge, 1880. Based on the Henry Colburn edition of 1844.

Ainsworth, William Harrison. Windsor Castle. An Historical Romance. Illustrated by George Cruikshank and Tony Johannot. With designs on wood by W. Alfred Delamotte. London: Methuen, 1903. Based on the Henry Colburn edition of 1844.

Bentley, Nicholas, Michael Slater, and Nina Burgis. The Dickens Index. Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1990.

Cohen, Jane Rabb. Part One, "Dickens and His Early Illustrators: 1. George Cruikshank. Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1980. Pp. 15-38.

Cruikshank, George. The Bachelor’s Own Book; Or, The Progress Of Mr. Lambkin, In The Pursuit Of Pleasure And Amusement. Glasgow: David Bryce, 1844, rpt. 1880.

Cruikshank, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library: "Hop-O'-My-Thumb," "Jack and the Bean-Stalk," "Cinderella," "Puss in Boots". London: George Bell, 1865.

Davis, Paul. Charles Dickens A to Z. The Essential Reference to His Life and Work. New York: Checkmark and Facts On File, 1998.

Defoe,​ Daniel.​The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner, with introductory verses by Bernard Barton, and illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition. 2 vols. London: Printed at the Shakespeare Press, by W. Nichol, for John Major, Fleet Street, 1831.

Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner. (1831). Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Major's Edition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1890.

Dickens, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. With 24 illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Chapman and Hall, 1846.

Dickens, Charles. "Full Report of the Second Meeting of the Mudfog Association." Bentley's Miscellany, No. 21. London: Richard Bentley, September 1838.

Dickens, Charles. "The Mudfog and Other Sketches." Sketches by Boz Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-Day People. Ed. Thea Holme. The Oxford Illustrated Dickens. Oxford: Oxford U. P., 1957; rpt., 1987.

Dickens, Charles. "Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, Once Mayor of Mudfog." Bentley's Miscellany. London: Richard Bentley, January 1837.

Dickens, Charles. Sketches by Boz. Second series. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London, St. James's Square: John Macrone, 1836.

Dickens, Charles. Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839, rpt. 1890.

George Cruikshank. Intro. William Feaver. Exhibition catalogue. London: Arts Council, 1974.

Fielding, Henry.​The Adventures of Joseph Andrews​and his friend, Parson Abraham Adams.​Illustrated by George Cruikshank.​London: James Cochrane,​1832.

Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself (1766). Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: James Cochrane, 1832.

Grego, Joseph (intro) and George Cruikshank. Cruikshank's Water Colours. [27 Oliver Twist illustrations, including the wrapper and the 13-vignette title-page produced for F. W. Cosens; 20 plates for William Harrison Ainsworth's The Miser's Daughter: A Tale of the Year 1774; 20 plates plus the proofcover the work for W. H. Maxwell's History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803]. London: A. & C. Black, 1903. OT = pp. 1-106].

Grimaldi, Joseph, and Charles Dickens. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, Edited By 'Boz'. With ten illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: George Routledge and Sons. The Broadway, Ludgate. New York: 416, Broome Street, 1869.

Johnson, E. D. H. "George Cruikshank: The Collection at Princeton." Princeton University Library Chronicle. 25 (1973): 1-33. [see Patten below]

Kitton, Frederic G. "George Cruikshank." Dickens and His Illustrators. London: Chapman & Hall, 1899. Pp. 1-28.

Kubiak, Richard. George Cruikshank: Printmaker (1792-1878). Exhibition catalogue. Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Santa Barbara, 1978.

McLean, Ruari. George Cruikshank: His Life and Work as a Book Illustrator. English Masters of Black-and-White. London: Art and Technics, 1948.

Maxwell, William Hamilton. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; with memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's insurrection in 1803. Illustrated by George Cruikshank and E. P. Lightfoot. London: Baily Brothers, Cornhill, 1845.

Patten, Robert L., ed. George Cruikshank: A Revaluation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992. [Originally published 1974 as an issue of Princeton University Library Chronicle.]

Patten, Robert L. George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art. 2 vols. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992-1996.

Smollett, Tobias. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves. (1760). Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: James Cochrane, 1832.

Sterne, Laurence. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759). Illustrated by George Cruikshank. London: James Cochrane, 1832.

Vogler, Richard A. Graphic Works of George Cruikshank. Dover Pictorial Archive Series. New York: Dover, 1979.

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