Punchs (5 results)

Condition: Good. 16vo. Good. Binding coming slightly loose. Hard cover. 192 pp. Black and white plates.

Eine Sammlung der in der satirischen Zeitschrift "Punch" während des Ersten Weltkriegs erschienenen Karikaturen. Im Text werden chronologisch die Kriegsereignisse geschildert u., aus der späteren Sicht sicher nicht erstaunlich, die jeweils prophetische Haltung des "Punch" hervorgehoben. - Teilweise stockfleckig.

Print. The folding frontispiece and contiguous title page for Punch's Pocket-Book for 1853. Inspired by the recent discovery of gold in Australia, the image shows a crowd of comely young women off to find rich husbands in Australia, rejecting their suitors in England. Their British suitors have begged some to stay. The women's replies are "A Cottage! Fiddle-de dee - Sir!" and "Bother yer Hunderd (sic) Pounds, and House in the Public line! a likely Start indeed!" . The women are on the wharf and descending a ladder to the boat that will ferry them to the clipper to Australia. Brandeis University has a handsome run of these Punch Pocket Books. From their website- "An offspring of the famed British satirical magazine Punch, Punch's Pocket Book was an annual publication containing an almanac, cash account log, daily diary pages, and a variety of useful business information as well as short stories, poetry, and cartoons." A steel engraving with original hand color,11 7/8 x 5 3/4". Slightly rubbed on one fold o/w very good.

Ephemera. The folding frontispiece and contiguous title page for Punch's Pocket-Book for 1854. Inspired by the recent discovery of gold in Australia, the image shows a group of rough blokes in a mining camp being catered to by the gentility - 'Society' inverted in the Antipodes. Seated in front of tents on "Regent Street", the blokes shout "Now then, you Master of Arts! Look sharp with that Pale Ale". An outlaw seated in the foreground, a huge pistol in his belt, is having his boots removed by a gentleman, to be replaced with his slippers. A barefoot gentlewoman is serving drink to a table of ruffians, playing cards, including a woman. Brandeis University has a handsome run of these Punch Pocket Books. From their website- "An offspring of the famed British satirical magazine Punch, Punch's Pocket Book was an annual publication containing an almanac, cash account log, daily diary pages, and a variety of useful business information as well as short stories, poetry, and cartoons." A steel engraving with original hand color,11 7/8 x 5 3/4". Slightly rubbed on one fold o/w very good.

This little pocket book has been densely filled with diary notes by a young girl or young woman, presumably one Flora Keene. She copies out several hymns at the opening, and then completes every day of her diary, with dense and minute notes, now very hard to read, mainly noting family comings and goings. The frontispiece by John Leech entitled 'Volunteer Movement - Jones & Family go under Canvas' is a satire on the British volunteer rifle corps, formed in 1859 as a response to public fears of a French invasion. There is also a series of delightful vignettes by Tenniel on Shakespearean quotations. 16mo (120 × 80 mm), pp. [2], 139, [4], 142-192, folding wood engraved frontispiece and additional title, both hand-coloured, 6 wood engraved plates and numerous vignettes. The account book and diary section very fully completed, mainly in pencil in a minute (and often illegible) hand. Original limp roan wallet binding. Lightly rubbed. Early pencil inscription: 'Flora A. Keene from her dear brother Will'.