MAKE A MEME View Large Image Punch three-volume-novel-parody Priestman-Atkinson.png Our Three-Volume Novel at a Glance a cartoon by Priestman Atkinson from the Punch Almanack for 1885 which would have been published in late 1884 This is a jocular look at some clichéd ...
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Keywords: 1885 Punch three-volume-novel-parody Priestman-Atkinson.png Our Three-Volume Novel at a Glance a cartoon by Priestman Atkinson from the Punch Almanack for 1885 which would have been published in late 1884 This is a jocular look at some clichéd expressions which were overused in the popular literature of the time It contains absurd literalistic interpretations of a number of conventional metaphors accompanied by some outrageous visual puns In the nineteenth century popular novels often appeared in three-volume editions when first published in order to allow three customers of commercial circulating libraries to be reading parts of the book simultaneously I've abridged the second and third volumes of the cartoon in this scan For the whole original cartoon with full versions of volumes II and III see http //books google com/books id 2i5urGmfJ5oC pg PA163 Punch Almanack for 1885 1884 Priestman Atkinson PD-old-70-1923 1884 cartoons 1884 magazines Fashion in 1884 Punch magazine cartoons Puns Clichés
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