Poole and Young | The Pre-Cinema World of Ghostly Projections

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

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800 - 1,200 USD

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Poole and Young

Public Hall Ipswich. Poole and Young's Return with Something New! ... Phantoscope and Spectrescope ... First Time in this Town of Professor Pepper's Proteus. [Birmingham: James Upton, 1872]


Engraved broadside playbill (888 x 285 mm). Printed in five colors in a profusion of types, lithograph depicting a phantoscope scene; not examined out of frame, some separation at folds, at least one reinforced, light soiling and wear. Matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas. 


Poole and Young presented an odd and appealing combination of scientific marvels and theatrical vignettes of literary luminaries. The Poole family was responsible for producing a variety of optical amusements from the 1840s well into the twentieth century, eventually converting their variety theaters into film houses (EE). 


REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 191; EE, pp. 152-153

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