New readings of old authors
Publisher: E. Wilson
Published: 1832
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons; Pictorial English wit and humor
Notes: Includes caricatures of contemporary life with quotations, chiefly from Shakespeare, as captions.

No. [18] includes publisher's advertisement, on verso of title- page, as "nearly ready for delivery", of a work published in Dec. 1833.

Each volume consists of letterpress title-page, sometimes with added text, and [10] plates.

Comprises 260 lithographs, by G.E. Madeley, after Robert Seymour.

"The lithographic stones ... were effaced before the artist's death."--Cf. Everitt.

"This work will appear monthly, or more frequently if possible".-V. 1, p. [iv].

On some numbers Charles Tilt appears as publisher; occasionally in collaboration with Wilson.

Abbey, J.R. Life, 320

Everitt, G. English caricaturists, p. 222
Table of contents: title: [No. 1] Romeo and Juliet; title: [No. 2] Hamlet; title: [No. 3] Byron's "The Giaour"; title: [No. 4] Macbeth; title: [No. 5] Richard III; title: [No. 6] Merchant of Venice; title: [No. 7] Othello; title: [No. 8] Julius Caesar; title: [No. 9] The tempest; title: [No. 10] King John; title: [No. 11] Henry VIII; title: [No. 12] King Lear; title: [No. 13] Coriolanus; title: [No. 14] As you like it; title: [No. 15] Midsummer night's dream; title: [No. 16] King Henry IV, part 1; title: [No. 17] King Henry IV, part 2; title: [No. 18] Taming the shrew; title: [No. 19] King Henry 5th; title: [No. 20] Love's labour lost; title: [No. 21] Cymbeline; title: [No. 22] King Richd. 2nd.; title: [No. 23] Antony & Cleopatra - [No. 24] Troilus & Cressida; title: [No. 25] Titus Andronicus; title: [No. 26] Pericles