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Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textThe first volume of Punch, the London comic weekly founded in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and Ebenezer Landells. It gave the word “cartoon” its modern meaning, printed Thackeray, and kept going for a century and a half. Early Punch is rowdier and more radical than its later reputation.
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- Project Gutenberg, eBook #13639. In the public domain in the United States.