GOULD, Francis Carruthers (illustrator) & [Edward Harold BEGBIE]. [The Political Struwwelpeter, London: Grant Richards, 1899], 4° (37 x 35cm), dedication leaf and 24 leaves of text with coloured illustrations by Gould and the corresponding 24 ORIGINAL PEN AND INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS BY GOULD, each signed with initials, approx. 25 x 18cm, similarly bound-in, a preliminary blank also signed by Gould, mounted in a morocco album by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, g.e.

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GOULD, Francis Carruthers (illustrator) & [Edward Harold BEGBIE]. [The Political Struwwelpeter, London: Grant Richards, 1899], 4° (37 x 35cm), dedication leaf and 24 leaves of text with coloured illustrations by Gould and the corresponding 24 ORIGINAL PEN AND INK AND WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS BY GOULD, each signed with initials, approx. 25 x 18cm, similarly bound-in, a preliminary blank also signed by Gould, mounted in a morocco album by Riviere, spine gilt in compartments, g.e.

拍品专文

Sir Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925), political caricaturist and "the most successful cartoonist of his day" (D.N.B.), was also, according to Lord Rosebery, "one of the few remaining political assets of the [Liberal] Party." He illustrated for the Christmas numbers of Truth, and worked for The Pall Mall Gazette and The Westminster Gazette amongst other publications. His favourite subject was Joseph Chamberlain, and his sources included Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll, Shakespeare and the Bible. He was knighted in 1906. According to Houfe's Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and Caricaturists 1800-1914 (see pp. 320-321), "his cartoons are among the more attractive ephemera of the 1890s still obtainable."