It is very handsomely got up and admirably printed, the letterpress being beautifully clear.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Later, metal was made possible as a substitute for wood, and this enabled illustrations and letterpress to be printed together.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
We should probably have overlooked this piece of impertinence had Punch confined itself to letterpress in its toady vindication of the quarrel of the "Times;" but in the 222nd page of the number which contains the Windsor Election article, there is a disgusting caricature of the Queen and her family, the most false and unjust in what it implies that it is possible to conceive, and the most offensive to the feelings of a mother.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann