LIST OF ENGRAVINGS FROM ORIGINALS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

CHAPTER I. ORIGIN OF PUNCH IN ITALY.

CHAPTER II. ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PUPPET-PLAYS IN ENGLAND.

CHAPTER III. ANTIQUITY OF PUNCH IN AMERICA.

CHAPTER IV. ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE THEATRE AND THE ACTING OF THE PUPPETS.

THE TRAGICAL ACTS, OR COMICAL TRAGEDIES OF PUNCH AND JUDY.

PREFACE.

THE TRAGICAL ACTS, OR COMICAL TRAGEDIES OF PUNCH AND JUDY. ACT I.

ACT II.

THE PERSECUTED DUTCHMAN, IN MRS. BARRISNOBE'S HOTEL."

ACT III.

ACT IV.

ACT V.

ACT VI. THE SINKING SHIP.

THE BLACK JUDGE.

[4] Mr. Punch and the Great USD25,000 Box Trick.

DIALOGUE FOR A PAIR OF Ventriloquial Champions.

A YOUNG LADY'S CONVERSATION.

PRICE LIST OF Punch and Judy Properties .

THE ROYAL MARIONETTES.

RECITERS, GUIDE BOOKS, ETC.

Transcriber's Note:

Punch and Judy

THE TRAGICAL ACTS,

OR COMICAL TRAGEDIES

OF

PUNCH AND JUDY,

WITH TWENTY-THREE ILLUSTRATIONS,

FROM ORIGINALS BY

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

AND OTHER PLATES,

ACCOMPANIED BY THE DIALOGUE OF THE PUPPET-SHOW, AN ACCOUNT OF ITS
ORIGIN, AND OF PUPPET-PLAYS IN ITALY, ENGLAND AND AMERICA,
WITH INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE CHOICE, SELECTION
AND ACTING OF THE PUPPETS.

BY PROF. W.J. JUDD.

New York:
HAPPY HOURS COMPANY, PUBLISHERS,
No. 5 Beekman Street.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by
HAPPY HOURS COMPANY,
in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.