Harry Furniss illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray, as well as the Lewis Carroll's novel Sylvie and Bruno. Furniss wrote and illustrated twenty-nine books of his own, including Some Victorian Men and Some Victorian Women and illustrated thirty-four works by other authors. His two-volume autobiography, titled The Confessions of a Caricaturist was published in 1902, and an additional volume of personal recollections and anecdotes, Harry Furniss At Home, was published in 1904.

Contents:

Confessions of My Childhood – and After

Bohemian Confessions

My Confessions as a Special Artist

The Confessions of an Illustrator – a Serious Chapter

A Chat between My Pen and Pencil

Parliamentary Confessions

"Punch"

The Artistic Joke

Confessions of a Columbus

Australia

Platform Confessions

My Confessions as a "Reformer"

The Confessions of an Editor