bound issue from July 18, 1888; Vol XXIII, no. 593. The special edition issue has two lithograph title pages; 5 lithographs in total. Lithographs address various topics, including: the 1888 presidential election between Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland; high tariffs, monopolists, and war taxes; the life of a knight during the Middle Ages; New York "hayseeds"; advertisement for a Sohmer piano with metaphors for D.C., and comments on the 1888 presidential nominees. Lithographs include "Midsummer Puck" (title page; depiction of a young boy steering a boat labeled "1888," the boat is filled with spring flowers and a woman looking towards the reader); "The New Sign" (second title page; shows a tan Benjamin Harrison wearing an oversize white top hat labeled "Grand papa's Hat" with feathers "Monopoly" and "Trust" adorned on the side. Harrison is bare chested, wearing moccasins and Native American jewelry and clothing, and holding a barrel labeled "Free Whisky" over his shoulder. He is also holding a bundle of [presumably] cigars labeled "Monopolists High Tariffs" in his right hand. In his left hand, Harrison holds a wad of [presumably] money labeled "Free Chaw." Behind him, Jim B. [presumably a senator] is stuffed inside a barrel of hay, his legs chopped off by a cart labeled "Scotch Sun Snuff. The scene takes place outside a shop labeled "Old Republican Cigar and Whiskey Store," a patriotic mailbox is affixed to the doorframe labeled "The War Tax Brand"); "The Bold Sir Bedievere's Vacation in the Country--A midsummer Story of the Middle Ages" (shows a 12-panel vignette of a knight's adventures through the "Midsummer"); "'Sassiety' at the Sea" (shows a scene at the beach of a creepy "Uncle Hayseed" looking towards a woman bather. The woman is being dressed by [presumably] her maid; other onlookers and beach goers surround her); Sohmer Co. and Pianos advertisement (shows dapperly dressed salesmen asking Columbia [a woman dressed in patriotic stars and stripes dress and drapes] to ignore a calamitous crowd behind her and play a "perfect, complete" Sohmer piano)
