Two Hundred Sketches Humorous and Grotesque

A single, lavish 1866 folio from Frederick Warne & Co., Two Hundred Sketches Humorous and Grotesque collects the peerless linework of Gustave Doré in a sprawling gallery of satirical and fantastical vignettes. This oversized volume showcases the master illustrator’s virtuosity outside his famous literary engravings, offering a pure, unadulterated dose of his darkly comic imagination. It remains a landmark artifact of Victorian visual humor, demonstrating Doré’s range as both writer and artist in a format that feels like a lost sketchbook of a genius.