Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Édouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh and Jean Béraud. Caricature from the Egyptians to Punch - Hogarth, Gillray, Daumier, Nast - with several hundred reproductions and an argument about what a society lets itself be mocked for. Parton wrote the standard American biographies of his day and turned the same method on pictures. Its 173 original illustrations have been carefully restored and coloured for this edition.













