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Forrester (Alfred Crowquill). In the
subsequent editions drawings by Richard Doyle and John Leech, in a
kindred spirit of fanciful extravagance, were added, and helped
materially towards the attractions of the volume. Its popularity
surpassed the utmost expectations of the authors. To them not the least
pleasant feature of its success was that it was widely read both in the
Navy and the Army, and was nowhere more in demand than in the
trenches before Sebastopol in 1854.
THEODORE MARTIN.
31 ONSLOW SQUARE,
_October_ 1903.
LIST OF EDITIONS
OF THE
BON GAULTIER BALLADS.

Edition.
1 1845 16mo
Illustrated by
ALFRED
CROWQUILL.
2 1849 sm. 4to
Illustrated by
ALFRED

CROWQUILL and

RICHARD DOYLE. With

Portrait of "Bon

Gaultier,"

Illuminated

Title-page, and

Ornamental Borders.
3 [1849] "
Illustrated by
ALFRED
CROWQUILL,

RICHARD DOYLE, and
JOHN
LEECH. First