Harry Furniss

“ Each plate is hand-printed, and will in every way surpass, for artistic quality, anything of the kind ever published.
As Photogravure is the best and most faithful, as well as the most expensive method, this Album is certain to be valuable, and a worthy and complete memorial of the “Artistic Joke”; whilst the price charged will be only £3 3s., the same as fixed, originally, when the adoption of the cheaper process was contemplated.
The size of the Album is Imperial Quarto (11 by 15 inches) ; the plates range, on an average, from 4 × 6 to 71⁄2 × 9 inches. ”

“ But force of character, consciousness of power, masculine ability in grappling with complicated questions, and that species of eloquence, the effect of which arises rather from earnestness, straightforwardness, and elevation of sentiment, than from sparkling or elaborate rhetoric, give a man a position in the House of Commons which leaves him little in need of such other gifts as we have mentioned.”—Standard, Dec. ”

“ There can be no better book for a drawing-room table, to suggest subjects of talk. The arts of engraving have made rapid progress since these pictures first appeared, but it would be hard to surpass the pregnant humour of the more famous of the political cartoons. ”