Punch
Henry Mayhew (1812-1887)
Category
Books
Date
1841 - 1909
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 3246078
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. :. ill. ;. 4to.,. 29 cm. Holding: v.1-2; v.81, 87, 88 (x2), 89, 90, 92, 137. Imperfect: v.1. missing title page. Provenance: label on front pastedown with verses exhorting the reader to return the book (v.1-2). Binding: v.1-2: nineteenth-century brown cloth over boards; gilt illustration of a jester holding a copy of punch on upper board; gilt lettered spine. V.81: nineteenth-century green cloth; red sprinkled edges; spine with recessed cords, spine title "Punch" gilt lettered direct. V.87, 89-92: nineteenth-century navy leather over flexible boards; title and year in gilt on spine.V.87, 89-92: nineteenth-century navy leather over flexible boards; title and year in gilt on spine; red edges. V.88: nineteenth-century quarter black leather with printed, illustrated paper over boards. V.137: early twentieth-century quarter navy cloth with marbled card covers.
Makers and roles
Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) Henry Mayhew (1812-1887) Sir Francis Cowley Bunard (1836-1917) Sir Francis Cowley Bunard (1836-1917) Mark Lemon (1809-1870) Sir Owen Seaman (1861-1936) Tom Taylor (1817-1880) Charles William Shirley Brooks (1815/6-1874)