Punch and Judy: As Performed before all the Crowned Heads of Europe and the President of the United States (registration no. 138880) Virginia

Punch and Judy: As Performed before all the Crowned Heads of Europe and the President of the United States (registration no. 138880) Virginia(Punch and Judy) PUNCH AND JUDY: AS PERFORMED BEFORE ALL THE CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (registration no. 138880). London: Ernest Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1892]. 4to 11" x 7 1 4". Blue cloth backed color pictorial glazed card wrappers die cut in the shape of a "Punch and Judy" booth, with the Beadle, Punch and Toby on the stage, with wear to the extremities and light soiling to the back wrapper for

Original cream color glazed paper covered boards with decoration printed in black and titles printed in black and red to front cover

Petersburg]: [Ekspeditsiia Zagotovleniia Gosudarstvennykh Bumag]

Bound in original blind-stamped brown cloth-covered boards with the title stamped in gilt to the center of the front cover

This artifact represents a rare crossover collaboration between two of the 19th century's most significant visual artists

Thirty-fourth edition

and a beautiful full page chromolithograph illustrating the verse and featuring the Brownies on the opposing page

The drawing features five small children walking down a village road

"According to the records of his estate

Pale yellow endpapers with stylized long-stemmed flowers in white

creating double-thickness pages that simulate the structural rigidity of a traditional board book while retaining full flexibility

a small price sticker on the plain box bottom indicates that this item was originally retailed by Joseph Horne Co

with foxing to plain back side of both free endpapers