Excerpt from Cruikshankiana: A Choice Collection of Books Illustrated by George Cruikshank, Together With Original Water-Colors, Pen and Pencil Drawings, Etchings, Caricatures and Original ProofsChildren. Then there was the in¿uence of Gillray, It was the in¿uence Of a madman, and if that madness never clouded Cruikshank's brain, at least a little Of it crept into' his pencil. But after all, was not all that society Just a little unbalanced? In contemplating it does there not come the thought that it would have been improved by being put away for six months' repose and quiet care in some maison de sa/nté?About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.