PUNCH & JUDY. THREE VOLUMES: PUNCH'S MERRY PRANKS, [1855]; PUNCH AND JUDY, [1892]; ROYAL PUNCH & JUDY, [C.1870]

i) Punch's Merry Pranks. London: Leipsic, Friedrich Volckmar, London, William Tegg & Co., and A.& S. Joseph, Myers & Co., [c.1855]. 4to (265 x 200mm.), FIRST EDITION, hand-colour illustrations, 2 pp. publisher's advertisements with corrective slip A. & S. Joseph, Myers & Co., pasted over text, original brown boards, minor spotting and browning, rubbed ii) Punch and Judy. London: Ernest Nister [1892]. 4to (280 x 182mm.), colour illustrations throughout, blue cloth-backed pictorial wrappers, collector's folding box, browning, chipping throughout and to wrappers, soiled iii) The Royal Punch & Judy as played before the Queen at Windsor Castle & the Crystal Palace. London: Dean & Son, [1860]. 4to (283 x 175mm.), 8 hand-coloured movable plates, colour lithograph wrappers, collector's chemise and slipcase, minor spotting and browning, wrappers worn with creasing, rubbed (3)

Punch's Merry Pranks with Henry Frederick 6th Marquess of Bath, bookplate

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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