About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: David Low, James Gillray, Rich Johnston, D'Israeli, Philip Zec, Posy Simmonds, Leslie Ward, Colin Cotterill, Osbert Lancaster, Ralph Steadman, Bruce Bairnsfather, Ken Reid, George du Maurier, Ashleigh Brilliant, George Worsley Adamson, Michael Heath, William Haselden, John Ryan, Les Gibbard, Roger Hargreaves, Biff, Jamie McKelvie, Bill Tidy, Trevor Metcalfe, Dave Follows, Mel Calman, Tony Hannan, Robert Nixon, Paul Sample, Raymond Jackson, Rick Brookes, Lisa Swerling, H. M. Bateman, Steven Appleby, Stanley McMurtry, Christopher Reid, Charles Peattie, Knife and Packer, Arthur Watts, Tom Webster, Kimon Evan Marengo, Grange Calveley, Larry, Dave Brown, John Fardell, Bob Wilson, Barry Appleby, Brian White, Steven Harris, Michael Cummings, Rod McKie, Peter Clarke, Mick Bunnage, Graham Dury, Russell Brockbank, Denise Dorrance, Steve McGarry, Gray Jolliffe, Kevin Woodcock, Alex Hallatt, Adam Hargreaves, Matt Percival, The Cartoonists' Club of Great Britain, Russell Taylor, Nicholas Garland, David Austin, Lawrence Goldsmith. Excerpt: James Gillray (13 August 1756 or 1757 - 1 June 1815), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810. He was born in Chelsea. His father, a native of Lanark, had served as a soldier, losing an arm at the Battle of Fontenoy, and was admitted, first as an inmate, and afterwards as an outdoor pensioner, at Chelsea Hospital. Gillray commenced life by learning letter-engraving, at which he soon became adept. This employment, however, proved irksome to James, so he wandered about for a time with a company of strolling players. After a very checkered experience he returned to London and was admitted as a student in the Royal Academy, supporting himself by engraving, and probably issuing a considerable number of...
