Download or read book Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. 10 written by Mary Dorothy George and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires, Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Vol. 10: 1820-1827 Satires Dr. Dorothy George has reached the penultimate stage of her task and the year 1827. One further volume will bring the Catalogue down to 1832 and the passing of the Reform Bill, Which has been fixed as the limit of the work. This date marks not only the end of an historical era, but also the Virtual end of the type of political caricature Which has formed the bulk of the material catalogued in this and the preceding volumes. The scurrility and bitter personal invective of the age of Rowlandson and Gillray finally disappear and are replaced by the gentlemanly irony of H. B. And his imitators. Nor after 1832 does the material in the Department provide the continuous picture of political and social life Which it had done hitherto and Which made the elaborate treatment it has received in these volumes so valuable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.