FAMOUS PUNCH CARTOON OF SIR JAMES GRAHAM AS "PAUL PRY AT THE POST OFFICE"; July 1844 Punch magazine print (180 x 247mm; cut to neatly fit album page; glued onto page at left) showing Sir James Graham peering into the end of a sealed envelope surrounded by discarded (presumably opened) letters! Fine Reform Campaign item that is often illustrated but rarely seen in this original form. [A similar example in Cavendish's June 2012 auction, lot 920, realised £300.] (Image)

THE POST-OFFICE PEEP-SHOW CARTOON + PUNCH'S ANTI-GRAHAM ADVERTS, ETC.; July 1844 cartoon from the Punch magazine (glued to page at left) depicting Sir James Graham offering bystanders a look inside a model of the London Post Office building at 1d a time, a pair of different July 1844 cuttings from Punch listing the mottoes on the newly published "ANTI-GRAHAM WAFERS", a number of other related 1844 Punch cuttings and a group of illustrations of the inquisitive Postmistress in Scott's novel looking inside a sealed letter. Scarce group. (11 19th century items) (Image)

STAND AND DELIVER & "REVIEW OF THE POSTMEN" ANTI-GRAHAM PUNCH CARTOONS, ETC.; 1844/5 group of original cuttings from Punch magazine (each glued onto pages at left) including the 1845 "STAND AND DELIVER!" scene with Sir James Graham robbing the postman at gun-point, and his Aug. 1844 scene reviewing the London Postmen ("Thumb on seal! Open letters!, Read letters! Re-fold letters! Pocket letters! Wet wafer! Insert wafer! Stamp!"), etc. Amusing lot. (20 cuttings) (Image)

THACKERAY MULREADY CARICATURE (DEFACED PROOF), ANTI-GRAHAM PUNCH CARTOON, ETC.; Fine defaced Proof of the Thackeray Mulready Caricature design, 1811/35 free fronts (4) & Entire with autographs of Sir James Graham (3) or his great adversary in the 1844 campaign, Thomas Duncombe (2), and 4 related 1844/46/55 Punch magazine cuttings incl. large June 1855 Crimean-War related cartoon of Sir James Graham as an "UNPLEASANT BOY, WHO MADE A DIRT PIE AND ATE IT"! Unusual group. (11 items) Cross Reference : MULREADY STATIONERY & PROPAGANDA COVERS, FREE MAIL, MILITARY - CRIMEAN WAR (Image)