Cartoons. “The Second Childhood of John Bull”

London: Stephen Swift, 1911. First Edition. With 15 tinted captioned caricatures, the captions printed on facing pages. 1 vols. Folio. Original lettered boards, blue cloth spine. Some cover wear. First Edition. With 15 tinted captioned caricatures, the captions printed on facing pages. 1 vols. Folio. A series of satiric depictions of John Bull, evidently prompted by the Boer War, showing England losing influence in world affairs, a junior partner to other nations, and bedevilled by internal problems and cultural antipathies. The drawings were originlly exhibited at the Carfax Galler in 1901. Hart-Davis, pp. 167-68