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Auction Closed
October 28, 08:54 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 USD
Lot Details
Description
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:
cf. EE, pp. 66-67
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