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Beffin, [Sarah] | Another advertisement for the Bartholomew Fair

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

800 - 1,200 USD

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Beffin, [Sarah]

The Greatest Wonder in the World ... The Celebrated Miss Beffin. Miniature Painter Who Was Born Without Hands & Arms. Lambeth: T. Romney, [1811]


Handbill (215 x 139 mm). Printed in an assortment of types, small woodcut vignette of the Royal coat of arms, early manuscript note "Bartholomew Fair 1811" written at upper margin; not examined out of frame, very light offsetting. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas.


The handbill version of the preceding lot, much reduced in size, and with the typo in the headline corrected ("Without" for "Wtihout"). 


REFERENCE:

cfEE, pp. 66-67

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