Punch, or, The London charivari [AND] Punch Almanack (1860-1884) (17 volumes)

Lemon, Mark; Mayhew, Henry; Taylor, Tom; Brooks, Shirley; Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley); Brooks, Charles W S

London : Punch Office; Bradbury & Evans, 1860

[Includes four volumes from the American Civil War Years]  17 volumes. Incomplete run includes the years: 1860-1861, 1864-1866, 1868-1875, 1881, 1883-1885.  Bound in later brown cloth. Good bindings and covers. Clean, unmarked pages. Profusely illustrated. 

Punch was a British magazine of humor and satire established in 1841. It quickly it rose to pre-eminence as a widely-read weekly that blended social commentary, with humor and wit. Punch appealed to reform-minded Victorian British middle-class sentiment, without espousing revolutionary spirit or radicalism.  The magazine was thickly populated by the political cartoons of John Tenniel and other artists.