Punch & Judy: the tragical comedy or comical tragedy.

Accession number: 
PML 251056
Author: 
Adams, Maryline Poole.
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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