The Life of Sir John Falstaff. Illustrated by G. Cruikshank. With a biography of the knight from authentic sources by Robert B. Brough
A comic biography of Shakespeare's Falstaff, written by Robert B. Brough with etchings by George Cruikshank, published in London by Longman in 1858 for Victorian readers of humorous literature. The plates are dense crowd scenes in Elizabethan dress — tavern interiors, arrests, street gatherings under trees — drawn in fine etched line with handwritten captions below.
