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George Cruikshank

Illustrator

(1792 - 1878)

George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank was a British caricaturist and book illustrator. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens and many other authors reached an international audience.



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The Adventures of Oliver Twist (1959)

An orphan, raised in the work house runs away and makes his way to London to seek his fortune. This is the World’s Classics edition #8 of the series. Dust jacket is by Ardizzone.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone
George Cruikshank

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The Children’s Book: A Collection of the Best and Most Famous Stories and Poems in the English Language (1910)

Ranging from fables to fairy tales to ballads to myth, this anthology has stood the test of time. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
Maxfield Parrish
Et al

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Gadshill Edition of the Works of Charles Dickens (1908)

Based on the author’s final edition with the original illustrations as well as many additional illustrations. Includes two volumes of uncollected pieces and the two-volume biography by John Forster for a total of 38 volumes.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
John Forster
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
George Cruikshank
Harry Furniss
Et al

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Gammer Grethel or German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories (1839)

This was the third edition of the Edgar Taylor translation of Grimm. It dispensed with the academic apparatus and included additional illustrations by Ludwig Grimm.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
Ludwig Grimm

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German Fairy Tales and Popular Stories as Told by Gammer Grethel (1846)

This is a retitled version of the third edition of the Edgar Taylor translation of Grimm. It dispensed with the academic apparatus and included additional illustrations by Ludwig Grimm. The image above is from a later printing. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
Ludwig Grimm

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German Popular Stories Translated from the Kinder und Haus Märchen Volume I (1823)

This is the first volume of Grimms’ tales to be translated into English. The title page above is from the third edition. The scan is from a facsimile published in 1904 which is actually from the second issue as there are dots over the "ä" in Märchen. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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German Popular Stories Volume II (1826)

This second collection from Grimm includes a few tales from other sources. There is no list of tales but it begins with The Goose Girl and ends with The Juniper Tree. The image above is from a facsimile printed in 1904. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Grimm’s Goblins (1876)

This is an omnibus edition of the tales translated by Taylor with all of the Cruikshank illustrations. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838)

This autobiography of a famous British clown was rewritten by Dickens. Read online at Internet Archive: Volume 1, and Volume 2.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Joseph Grimaldi
Thomas Egerton Wilks
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
W. Greatbach
S. Raven

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Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1968)

The autobiography of a British clown who was active in the early nineteenth century.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Joseph Grimaldi
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
W. Greatbach
Bernard Schleifer

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Oliver Twist (1838)

Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets. Read online at archive.org: Volume 1, and Volume 2, and Volume 3.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Oliver Twist (1846)

Born in a workhouse, Oliver runs away from an abusive mistress to seek his fortune in London where he falls in with a gang of pickpockets. The cover is for the extremely rare parts issue which was published in a single-volume “new, revised and corrected” edition. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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The Oxford Illustrated Dickens (1947)

This edition in twenty-one volumes has been frequently reprinted.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): Hablot K. Browne
George Cruikshank
Et al

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Puck on Pegasus (1868)

A collection of poems from Punch. This is the fifth edition. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank
Richard Doyle
John Leech
Phiz
John Tenniel
Et al

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Robinson Crusoe (1883)

First published in 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean.

Most recent editions have been abridged and some have had the religious themes suppressed. It gave birth the the genre of Robinsonade.

This edition includes the illustrations originally done for the 1831 edition. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe occupy the second half of the volume.

Read online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Robinson Crusoe (2011)

First published is 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean.While most recent editions have been abridged and some have had the religious themes suppressed, this edition is complete. It gave birth to the genre of Robinsonnade.

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Sketches by Boz (1836)

This first series of Sketches by Boz was published in two volumes. Short pieces about people and places. This is a reprint of the original and its illustrations at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Sketches by Boz: New Edition, Complete (1839)

In Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, Walter E. Smith writes:

“When Chapman and Hall obtained the copyright of Sketches in 1837, they published all of them in twenty monthly parts from November 1837 through June 1839. Cruikshank designed a cover, enlarged the plates (except ‘The Free and Easy’ which was discarded), and created 13 new illustrations for these monthly parts. In May 1839, Chapman and Hall published these parts complete in one volume with all 40 of Cruikshank’s illustrations.”

Reference: Walter E. Smith, Charles Dickens in the Original Cloth, p. 16. See Biblio.

Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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Sketches by Boz: The Second Series (1837)

This further collection was published in a single volume. The second edition of this title included two additional illustrations.

Author(s): Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

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