First U.S. edition. A listing of more than 2000 of Beerbohm's caricatures, during the first quarter of the twentieth century, with their captions and a brief description of where the work was exhibited and its ownership as of 1972. The editor has also added explanatory notes for jokes which are now forgotten or obscure. With indexes of titles, books and periodicals, and owners. Self-caricature as frontispiece and 100 illustrations following text, none of them previously reproduced in books. "I can draw caricatures at any moment, and how I rejoice in them! They are what I was put into the world to do." Lacking dust jacket. Covers lightly rubbed. Else very good. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted.