print;
illustrated book
- Museum number
- 1878,1214.159-182
- Title
- Object: Punch's Letters to His Son
- Description
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Douglas Jerrold, "Punch's Letters to His Son. Corrected and Edited, from the MSS. in the Alsatian Library" (London, Wm. S. Orr & Co.) 1843; containing 24 humourous wood-engravings after designs by Kenny Meadows, including titlepage vignette showing the devil sharpening a quill pen, frontispiece showing "Punch Reading His Dedication" to a man in eighteenth-century dress seated on a sofa, and the following further designs titled below in letterpress relating to the subject of the letters: "The Bright Poker"--"Sincerity!"--"Choosing a Profession"--"Death a 'Gentleman'"--"The Dignity of 'Nothing'"--"A Common Customer"--"Justice Giving 'Short Weight'"--"The Twin Spectre"--"Self-Trumpeting the Best Music"--"The 'Saint's' Cloven Foot"--"The Borrowed Umbrella"--"Pursuit of Wisdom by Shaving"--"Captain Kite and Master Pigeon"--"The Penalty of Sensibility"--"Punch Takes out his Plate"--"How to Use a Friend"--"The Skull Goblet"--"A Dog with a Conscience"--"The Solitary Drinker and his 'Genius'"--"Glory"--"The English Squaw"--"Punch in a Brown Study". Bound with letterpress in original purple cloth boards.
Wood-engravings
- Production date
- 1843
- Dimensions
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Height: 167 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 100 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Bound at the back of the volume are advertisemens for "Punch, or the London Charivari", "Punch's Pocket-Book for 1843", and "Punch's Almanack", containing information on prices, contents, and press criticism.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Punch
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,1214.159-182