London: Published for the Proprietors at the Office, 1846. First Edition. First printing Good+ in a contemporary binding of 1/4 brown leather and marbled paper covered boards with gilt text and borders on the spine and light brown paper end sheets. A small quarto measuring 10 3/4" by 8 1/4" with the upper 1/2 inch and a 1" chip from the lower fore edge of the leather backstrip missing, the front joint worn and cracking. The leather at the tips of the boards is rubbed and worn. Without a dust jacket and probably as issued. 268 pages including an index and illustrated throughout with line drawings and cartoons. The Punch Christmas volume for 1846.

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB25002
Title: Punch Or The London Charivari (Volume the Eleventh)
Author: Punch
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Published for the Proprietors at the Office
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1846

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Jacket: Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Marbled Paper: Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
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Quarto: The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
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