Accession number
PML 88290
Published
[England? : s.n., 18--]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
A conjurer's blow-book, with 9 different hand-colored full page engravings, each repeated 7 times. Each picture can be made to appear or vanish by flipping the pages in various ways.
Cover title.
Imperfect copy: "Directions" (1 leaf, laid in) telling how to make the same picture re-appear, is wanting.
Engraved throughout.
Includes pictures of a woman, a windmill, a clown, a hot air balloon, an owl, a rose, Union Jack and Royal Navy white, and a rampant lion.
Housed with PML 88289.
"Copyright. Entered at Stationers' Hall":--cover.
Cover title.
Imperfect copy: "Directions" (1 leaf, laid in) telling how to make the same picture re-appear, is wanting.
Engraved throughout.
Includes pictures of a woman, a windmill, a clown, a hot air balloon, an owl, a rose, Union Jack and Royal Navy white, and a rampant lion.
Housed with PML 88289.
"Copyright. Entered at Stationers' Hall":--cover.
Description
[123] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's blue glazed paper covers, stamped in black. In modern 1/4 black morocco case with light blue cloth boards.
Classification
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Department