Front matter
Reading edition
THE ILLUSTRATED POCKET LIBRARY OF PLAIN AND COLOURED BOOKS
THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS
What various views of our uncertain State These playful, unassuming Rhymes relate! Anon
Drawn by Rowlandson
Quæ Genus on his Journey To London.
THE HISTORY OF JOHNNY QUÆ GENUS THE LITTLE FOUNDLING OF THE LATE DOCTOR SYNTAX A POEM BY THE AUTHOR OF THE THREE TOURS
WITH TWENTY-FOUR COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY THOMAS ROWLANDSON
A NEW EDITION
METHUEN & CO. LONDON 1903
NOTE
THIS Issue is founded on the Edition published by R. Ackermann in the year 1822
HISTORY OF QUÆ GENUS, ETC.
THE favour which has been bestowed on the different Tours of Doctor Syntax, has encouraged the Writer of them to give a History of the Foundling, who has been thought an interesting Object in the latter of those Volumes; and it is written in the same style and manner, with a view to connect it with them.
This Child of Chance, it is presumed, is led through a track of Life not unsuited to the peculiarity of his Condition and Character, while its varieties, as in the former Works, are represented by the Pencil of Mr. Rowlandson with its accustomed characteristic Felicity.
The Idea of an English Gil Blas predominated through the whole of this Volume; which must be considered as fortunate in no common degree, if its readers, in the course of their perusal, should be disposed to acknowledge even a remote Similitude to the incomparable Work of Le Sage.
The AUTHOR.