"a remarkable collection" The Independent. "a New Yorker might tickle you, but a good Punch could draw blood" The Times. "a reminder of what an extraordinary position the magazine sustained for more than a century and a half." Today, Radio 4. "dead-cert best-seller anthology - handsomely thorough." The Guardian.

Text is provided by, and this enormous collection has been selected by Helen Walasek, of Punch Cartoon Library and former Curator of the Punch collection.

The cartoons are portrayed in chronological order, from 1841 to the end of the twentieth century, with special features on themes that inspired Punch's artists, the magazine's famed political cartoons - the 'Big Cuts' - and some of the magazine's most prominent cartoonists: Artists: John Leech * Charles Keene * George du Maurier * Phil May * HM Bateman * EH Shepard * Fougasse * Pont * Arthur Watts * Paul Crum * Sillince * Anton * Gerard Hoffnung * Rowland Emett * Norman Thelwell * Michael ffolkes * Mike Williams * Michael Heath * Peter Birkett * Tony Husband * Ronald Searle. Special features: New Technology * Photography * The Great Exhibition of 1851 * Women's Rights * Early Motoring * The Big Cuts * WW2 * The Space Race * New Technology * Holidays * Psychiatry * Lemmings * Caricatures