Noel Counihan’s Caricatures is a splendidly designed book: in this respect another success for Vane Lindesay who has received several national awards for book design. The succinct and pertinent introduction is followed by eighty Counihan caricatures, each of which is effectively isolated in the stark white space of a separate page, while facing pages carry the emboldened name of the personality depicted and the bare essentials of explanation. Lindesay has chosen caricatures which reproduce well (hence the exclusion of the Argus caricatures, most - of which were originally reproduced in half-tone and are unsuitable for further reproduction). Apart from just looking good, Lindesay’s book design is intelligently helpful, encouraging as it does an aesthetic response to the works reproduced.