![JUVENILE FLAP-BOOK The Pigmy Revels, or Harlequin Foundling, [c.1775]](http://images1.bonhams.com/image?src=Images/live/2011-07/15/94466349-55-1.jpg&tmp=web300&top=0.000000&left=0.000000&right=1.000000&bottom=1.000000&dt=zoom_image "JUVENILE FLAP-BOOK The Pigmy Revels, or Harlequin Foundling, [c.1775] Sold for £2,375 inc. premium")
27 Sep 2011
11:00 BST
Oxford
Printed Books & Maps, including a Collection of Cornish Maps
Back to auction 18936
Printed Books & Maps, including a Collection of Cornish Maps
Back to auction 18936
JUVENILE FLAP-BOOK
The Pigmy Revels, or Harlequin Foundling, drophead title, engraved throughout, 4 full-page hand-coloured engraved illustrations, each with two hand-coloured tipped on engraved flaps changing the scene at head and foot, publisher's orange wrappers, title label on upper cover, wrapper slightly soiled and worn at edges, very small folio (190 x 80mm.), modern card slipcase, RARE, G. Martin, [c.1775]
Sold for
£2,375
inc. premium
Footnotes
- No other copy traced with this imprint. Worldcat describes a work with the same title and similar format published by William Tringham in 1773.
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