The focus of this Collection of printed books and prints is English caricature and satire of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, principally Cruikshank, Gillray and Hogarth. The collection of prints is largely contemporary. The printed book collection element is for the most part comprised of secondary works, but with some early and first editions of, for example, Charles Dickens.
Keywords: Caricature; English literature.
Strengths: Caricature; satire; broadsheets; English literature
Languages:English
Identifier: Glucksman
Physical characteristics: 136 printed volumes; 109 prints.
Accumulation date range: c.1950s-2005.
Contents date range: 1768-1996
Accrual Status: Closed.
Custodial history/provenance: The Collection was bequested to the University by Mr Lewis L. Glucksman (1925-2006), and formally gifted by his widow, Dr Loretta Brennan Glucksman, in 2008.
Access Control: Closed access - please request. Non borrowable.