Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen

Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen is a book of twenty-five caricatures by English caricaturist, essayist and parodist Max Beerbohm. It was published in 1896 by Leonard Smithers and Co and was Beerbohm's first book of caricatures.

Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen

The Cover of the first edition of Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen (1896))
Author	Max Beerbohm
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Leonard Smithers and Co
Publication date	1896

Published with an introduction by Leonard Raven-Hill, Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen appeared the same year as Beerbohm's first collection of essays, The Works of Max Beerbohm. Caricatures of Twenty-five Gentlemen includes portraits of many prominent writers and artists of the 1890s, including Richard Le Gallienne, Frank Harris, Rudyard Kipling, Aubrey Beardsley and George Bernard Shaw.[1]

The collection established Beerbohm's reputation as the cruelest caricaturist of his day.[2] Beerbohm was aged 24 when the book was published.