Edmund Burke : A Life in Caricature

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. Good Condition. 29 x 25 x 2.4 cm. Dust jacket is fully intact. Clean and bright internally. Sound and serviceable overall. Publisher's note: For more than thirty years until his death in 1797, the statesman and writer Edmund Burke was a powerful and passionate voice on the great political issues of late eighteenth-century Britain. The broad range of his interests, and the fact that he was Irish with Catholic connections, make Burke a favorite target of leading caricaturists such as Gillray, Rowlandson, Dent and Sayers. This book follows and sheds new light on Burke's political, literary and personal life by examining a wide selection of caricatures, often vitriolic and sometimes bizarre, in which he was featured Size: 29 x 25 x 2.4 cm. x, 214 pp. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797 -- Caricatures and cartoons; Statesmen -- Great Britain -- Biography; Political scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 18th century -- Caricatures and cartoons; Genre; Biography; ISBN: 0300068018. ISBN/EAN: 9780300068016. Add. Inventory No: 240221SWT013014. . 9780300068016