Accession number:
PML 251056
Published:
Berkeley, CA : Poole Press, c1988
Description:
Continuous strip accordion-folded into [32] leaves, including pastedowns : col. ill. ; 74 x 58 mm
Credit:
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.
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.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Signed by M.P. Adams on colophon.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman, with her bookplate.
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