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A Selection of Cartoons from Puck

Chapter 60: Transcriber’s Notes
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About This Book

This collection gathers satirical pictorial essays and caricatures originally published in a humor magazine, pairing sharp visual exaggeration with allegorical scenes to comment on political and social issues of the late nineteenth century. An introductory essay explains the artist’s German-influenced approach that fuses caricature and cartooning into dramatic parables, and the plates reproduce large, detailed cartoons with accompanying captions and an index to aid interpretation. The volume emphasizes visual wit, topical parody, and the interplay of character drawing and symbolic narrative.

Transcriber’s Notes

Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling inconsistencies were were not changed by Transcriber.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; unbalanced quotation marks were remedied when the change was obvious, and otherwise left unbalanced.

On the Title page, the copy number “92” was hand-written.

The words in some of the black-and-white cartoons were easier to read when the illustrations retained the yellowing of aged paper than when converted to greyscale. Some of the cartoons probably were printed in colors that faded away by the time the source for this eBook was scanned into digital form.

The quotation in the illustration on page 87 was re-typed by the Transcriber to make it more legible.

The page references in the Index link to the titles and narratives of the illustrations, rather than to the illustrations themselves. The illustrations follow the narratives, as they did in the original book.