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Excerpt from In Jocular Literature: A Popular Subject More Closely Considered
Georgian epoch were equally prolific and unsparing; and even now, when all the civilised communities of the world have their printing presses without number at command, the pencil remains a favourite vehicle for the exhibition of humorous or unpopular traits in distinguished per sons of the day, and among many con noisseurs and students a volume of Gillray or Rowlandson is a more welcome object of attention or notice than a printed record.
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