Punch,  1 (1841), 143.

The Political Naturalist's Library

Anon

Genre:

Announcement, Spoof

Subjects:

Natural History, Publishing, Government, Politics


    Announces several works in natural history in which the author and/or contents are satirically related to the title of the work. For example, 'Humming Birds' is described as a work containing a 'Memoir and Portraits of Robert Peel [the Prime Minister], Lord Stanley [the Colonial Secretary], and Lord Aberdeen [the Foreign Secretary]'.



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