METROPOLITAN HOUSEHOLDERS' CLUB PUNCH LIBRARY OF HUMOUR Edited by J. A. Hammerton Designed to provide in a series of volumes, each complete in itself, the cream of our national humour, contributed by the masters of comic draughtsmanship and the leading wits of the age to "Punch," from its beginning in 1841 to the present day MR. PUNCH AT HOMEA note at the foot of a page A First Essay in Housekeeping.—Mr. Jones. "What is it, my pet?" Mrs. J. "This rabbit (sob)—I've been plucking it—(sob)—all the afternoon, and it isn't half done yet!" MR. PUNCH AT Maid with broom at doorway. THE COMIC SIDE AS PICTURED BY F. H. TOWNSEND, LEWIS BAUMER, C. SHEPPERSON, FRED PEGRAM, GUNNING KING, L. RAVENHILL, BERNARD PARTRIDGE, A. W. MILLS, G. L. STAMPA, C. E. BROCK, A. S. BOYD, PHIL MAY, CHARLES KEENE, GEORGE DU MAURIER, AND OTHERS WITH 130 ILLUSTRATIONS PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH 3 decorative leaves THE EDUCATIONAL BOOK CO. LTD. The Punch Library of Humour Twenty-five volumes, crown 8vo, 192 pages
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