Bought for its half-page description of Master Snickup's Cloak, a book I happened upon at a local library when I was perhaps twelve. I didn't understand Snickup, though I read and re-read the slim volume of images and scant prose, but I loved the images. I sensed an irreverance and adult-ness in Snickup's prose that I wished I could identify with myself, and the illustrations were an intriguing blend of comic caricature and twisted realism.

All that Whitlark writes about Snickup is his own version of the above, but it was enough to convince me he's worth reading, so I made the purchase. There's also a bit about Blake here, with some reproductions.