Part 1: Regency and early Victorian graphic humour: Modes and markets1 'Graphic bric-a-brac'? Approaching early nineteenth-century graphic humour2 Regency visual culture in the market place 3 Continuity, change and innovation in Regency and early Victorian comic print culturePart 2: The social vision of Regency and early Victorian comic visual culture4 Reflections in a print shop window: the politics of the public image5 Robert Seymour: a jobbing artist in the marketplace 6 The 'march of intellect' as a comic event: mockery, heroism and social change7 Revisiting the Regency: Punch's dustmenIndex -

In offering an overview of the market for comic images between 1820 and 1850, this book makes a case for the importance of a largely neglected area of visual culture. It draws on a wide range of commercially produced print genres, including song books, play-texts, comic annuals and magazines as well as single plate and series of caricatures.