Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump Erase Boards and he is despised

and he is despised

of beasts in brooding landscapes

This illustrated wordless version of the poem "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear is told through the beautiful artwork of award-winning illustrator Polly Dunbar

though the book deliberately retains some technically poor records to maintain a 'real-world' perspective

when homes are lost

Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump Erase Boards and he is despised"Sir Robert had composed the most seditious, disgusting, obscene, shameful thing I had ever seen." It's 1737 and England is on edge: someone has tried to assassinate the king at the theatre, and every stageplay is a satire of the royal family. Enter Prime Minister Robert Walpole with a cunning scheme that will grant him power to censor anything that goes on stage by writing the filthiest play ever conceived. All he needs to pull it off is a patsy,