The Odd Volume Or, Book of Variety

The Odd Volume; Or, Book of Variety

Emboldened by the popularity of the late entertainment, entitled Cruikshank at Home, an Odd Candidate for fame now enters the lists. The greatest care having been taken to render the subjects which have been selected as interesting as possible, this Volume may safely be pronounced even more attractive than either of its predecessors; and the publisher has the additional pleasure of announcing that the Engravings are the joint production of two clever artiststhe one, Mr. Cruikshank, a long-established favorite *the other, Mr. Seymour, a gentleman of far superior talent, but hitherto not quite, perhaps, so extensively known, in consequence of his short residence in London. As Mr. Seymour will have the entire management of all future volumesso far, at least, as relates to the Illustrationsthis notice is considered necessary for his formal introductionit being a far better channel than an ordinary Advertisement, and entirely superseding the necessity for employing a BILL-STICKER. Arriving one evening at an inn in Glasgow, I was shewn into a room which already contained a promiscuous assemblage of travellers. Amongst the rest, there was one whose features struck me as being the most horrible I ever beheld. He was a large, pursy old man, with a head villainous low, hair like bell-ropes, eyes that were the smallest and most porkish of all possible eyes, and a nose which shewed no more prominence en profile, than that of the moon as exhibited in her first quarter upon a freemasons apron; but all these monstrosities were as beautiesas lovelinessesas absolute perfections, compared with the mouththe enormous mouth, which, grinning beneath, formed a sort of rustic basement to the whole superstructure of his facial horrors. This mouthif mouth it might be called, which had so little resemblance to the mouths of mankindturned full upon me as I entered; and, happening at the moment to be employed in a yawn, actually seemed as if it would have willingly received me into its prodigious crater, mumbled me to a mummy, and then bolted me, spurs and all! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 44739
Author: Cruikshank, George
Release Date: Jan 23, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878 , Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836