Accession number
PML 251056
Creator
Adams, Maryline Poole.
Published
Berkeley, CA : Poole Press, c1988
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"The script and illustrations...were adapted from C. H. Grandgent and G. Cruikshank, respectively.".
"Designed, engineered, letter-press printed, and handbound by Maryline Poole Adams ... of an edition limited to 45 copies..."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 22.
"Designed, engineered, letter-press printed, and handbound by Maryline Poole Adams ... of an edition limited to 45 copies..."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 22.
Description
Continuous strip accordion-folded into [32] leaves, including pastedowns : col. ill. ; 74 x 58 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by M.P. Adams on colophon.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
Binding
Each page illustrated as a puppet stage with characters that move when tabs are pulled, bound in full black leather with window cut through front cover. Housed in black leather covered box (83 x 67 x 35 mm) made to resemble a traveling puppet theater with red and gold stage protruding 5 mm from front cover with cut out window covered by a beige cloth curtain with "Punch & Judy" in red letters with yellow tassle attached. The inside of the box is illustrated to resemble the inside of a traveling puppet theater. Both book and box have hinged brass closures.
Classification
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