1. "Robert Patten, in his two-volume George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, creates an authoritative source for the new century." - Catherine J.Golden in Victorian Studies, Vol. 40, No.4, Summer, 1997, pp. 680-6822. "Bob Patter's second volume on George Cruikshank has all the virtues of the first: immense detail about Cruikshank's life, incisive analysis of his art, intelligent treatment of historical context, and a fine number and choices of illustrations - reproduced more satisfactorily than some of the caricatures in volume one." - Michael Steig in Dickens Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 2, June, 1997, pp. 118-122