Punch,  9 (1845), 226.

The First Man of the Day

Anon

Genre:

News-Digest, Drollery

Subjects:

Astronomy, Publishing, Evolution


    Reports that the 'next edition of the "Vestiges of Creation" will be dedicated to the immortal Widdicomb', the ringmaster, in exchange for the fact that 'the moon at the Colosseum' is a 'slice of the one at the Amphitheatre at Rome'.



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