Accession number
PML 88777.1-3
Published
[London] : Printed and published by A. Park, No. 47, Leonard Street, Finsbury, [between 1836 and 1841]
Credit line
Gift of Patricia Ann Reyes honoring William M. Voelkle for fifty years of service, 2017.
Notes
Date of publication cf. Alderson & Oyens.
Sheet with illustrations of twenty-eight Twefth Night characters, King Graceful as no. 1, each with conundrum below, and answers to the conundrums at foot of the sheet (PML 88777.1); in illustrated wrapper titled: "Park's new lunar characters" (PML 88777.2); with sheet (8 x 23 cm) titled: "Explanation to the cover of Park's new lunar characters" (PML 88777.3)
The twenty-eight individually numbered characters with accompanying riddles were to be cut out and used for playing a riddle game at parties during mid-winter celebrations.
The illustrated wrapper shows a game board, consisting of two concentric tracks with numbers 1-28 in non-numerical order. These numbers refer to numbers listed on the small explanatory fortune-telling sheet. The circular image in the center shows a Twelfth Night cake and two large keys. Two circular images, left and right of center, show zodiac signs, a half moon, and a shooting star; scroll-work ornaments in the four corners.
Some images possibly after designs by George Cruikshank, cf. Rosenbach.
Sheet with illustrations of twenty-eight Twefth Night characters, King Graceful as no. 1, each with conundrum below, and answers to the conundrums at foot of the sheet (PML 88777.1); in illustrated wrapper titled: "Park's new lunar characters" (PML 88777.2); with sheet (8 x 23 cm) titled: "Explanation to the cover of Park's new lunar characters" (PML 88777.3)
The twenty-eight individually numbered characters with accompanying riddles were to be cut out and used for playing a riddle game at parties during mid-winter celebrations.
The illustrated wrapper shows a game board, consisting of two concentric tracks with numbers 1-28 in non-numerical order. These numbers refer to numbers listed on the small explanatory fortune-telling sheet. The circular image in the center shows a Twelfth Night cake and two large keys. Two circular images, left and right of center, show zodiac signs, a half moon, and a shooting star; scroll-work ornaments in the four corners.
Some images possibly after designs by George Cruikshank, cf. Rosenbach.
Description
1 sheet : hand colored wood engravings ; 50 x 38 cm (folded to 19 x 17 cm) + 1 wrapper (18 x 22.5 cm)
Provenance
From the library of Patricia Reyes.
Binding
In modern 1/2 green cloth folder with tan paper boards (29 x 22 cm)
Classification
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Department