A single page from Punch, or the London Charivari, dated November 2, 1861, carrying a satirical wood-engraved cartoon titled "King Cotton Bound; Or, The Modern Prometheus." It shows an eagle with an American flag pattern on its wings pinning down a bound, bearded figure on a rocky ledge, in the manner of the Prometheus myth. The cartoon comments on the Union blockade of Southern ports during the American Civil War and the resulting cotton shortage that affected Britain's textile industry.

A single-page Punch cartoon from 16 November 1861 titled 'Over the Way.' John Bull, standing before an 'Indian Cotton Depôt,' tells two quarreling parties that he will buy at the other shop if they prefer fighting to business. It comments on the American Civil War and the Trent Affair, and on Britain turning to India for cotton when Southern supplies were disrupted.

A satirical serial history of British costume published weekly in Punch during 1860, running from the Ancient Britons through the Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman and Plantagenet periods to the reign of Henry VII and the start of Henry VIII's. Forty-one chapters mix jokes, puns and invented 'old ballads' with descriptions of clothing, armour, headwear, footwear and ladies' fashions, drawn from effigies, seals and manuscripts. Many comic and engraved illustrations show period dress, helmets and effigies. The final note says Mr. Punch closes the series for the present.