In the original dust jacket. Brown cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare copy from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG.

”His political and social caricatures, even if allowance be made for the very full-blooded humanity which he depicted, are frequently coarse and indelicate; but as the pictorial chronicler of the hard-hitting, hard- riding, hard-drinking age in which he lived, he can never be neglected by the Georgian Historian.” Extract from the inside jacket.

Review: Rowlandson’s cheeky eighteenth century paintings of satirical erotic behaviour are well known amongst the aficionados of this type of art, and this book presents them in a uniform collection, elegantly produced. A total of fifty well-printed illustrations are included, with an informative illustrated biography of Rowlandson provided by William Smith. The coloured plates, although they were the subject of an obscenity trial as recently as 1977, are scarcely more erotic than appear routinely in today’s ‘quality’ newspapers, evidence of the fluctuating tastes, attitudes (and morals) of the English people. An excellent publication.

Thomas Rowlandson ( 13 July 1757 – 21 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social and political satires, as well as a large number of illustrations for novels, humorous books, and topographical works. Like other caricaturists of his age such as James Gillray, his caricatures are often robust or bawdy. His caricatures included those of people in power such as the Duchess of Devonshire, William Pitt the Younger and Napoleon Bonaparte. Rowlandson also produced erotica for a private clientele; this was never published publicly at the time and is now only found in a small number of collections.