(Buchinger Matthias) | This number being an Objects of Curiosity, Wonder and Admiration

(Buchinger Matthias) 

The Vagaries of Nature; or Portfolio of Singularities: containing Portraits and Biographical Memoirs of Men, Women, and Children, that have been Objects of Curiosity, Wonder or Admiration. No. 4. London: Published by George Smeeton, ca. 1825

8vo (223 x 142 mm). Pink-wash–colored engraved portrait of Buchinger by J. Gleadah, single leaf of text with caption-title "Matthew Buchinger: The Little Man of Nuremberg." Original printed buff wrappers, stab sewn; wrappers split at central fold and with some minor marginal chipping.

A good, if brief, account of Buchinger, with a facsimile of his trick penmanship.

REFERENCE:

MB, fig. 27