Punch - Volume X - January to July 1846

Punch Office, London, 1846, calf gilded spine and calf corners, marbled boards a little worn, especially the front board, also marbled endpapers, light to moderate foxing in parts, binding tight, pages clean and bright.

Punch herewith enriches the world with his Tenth Volume. When a Hero is to be born, some tremendous eventy always foreruns the call of the midwife. ANd thus it is - and very properly - with the birth of every Volume of Punch.
Corn-Law is dead - is a `clod of the valley.' Already predictions of large-brained lords are about to be fulfilled. The joyous, jocund peasantry of Suffolk - Richmond's Own, are losing their native Doric, and (fast becoming like unto Polish serfs) already swear in pure Sclavonic! All landowners - save those who grow their own mignionette at their windows - are ruined. Pockets worn inside out will speedily be the only fashion for a country gentleman. The social evil will be tremendous, but... Punch publishes his Tenth Volume. And a Richmond is reconciled to Britain; and, with a full belief in other volumes, a Buckingham wanly smiles, and more than half consents to live and die in desolate England!...