Punch, or the London Charivari. 1910-1939 inclusive [2 volumes per year]
PUNCH MAGAZINE.
WANTING ONLY JAN-JUNE 1931; JAN-JUNE 1939.
AN OUTSTANDING RUN IN PUBLISHER'S BINDING
Published: Punch Magazine, 1910 [-1939]
Stock code: 44282
Price: £980.00
57 vols., 8vo., First Edition, profusely illustrated throughout with cartoons, caricatures and illustrations; original publisher's series binding of maroon cloth, upper boards framed in blind and blocked in gilt and black, gilt backs, plain or primrose endpapers, all volumes very good, bright, clean copies.
An extraordinary run in bright, clean state, in publisher's original binding, and wanting only two volumes as noted. Punch provides an unrivalled archive of social comment, satire and humour, and a penetrating and accurate reflection of contemporary views, opinions and mores. This notable run covers the close of the Edwardian era, the Great War, the Roaring Twenties, the subsequent Depression, and the years of uncertainty leading to the outbreak of WWII. RUNS OF THIS CALIBRE AND IN THIS CONDITION ARE VERY SCARCE.