Buchinger, Matthias | Written on the banks of the Bristol Channel

Buchinger, Matthias

Autograph calligraphy exemplar signed ("Matthew Buchinger")

One page (95 x 136 mm) on a slip cut from a leaf of paper, Minehead, 6 November 1735, variously demonstrating frontward, backward, upside-down, and mirror writing ("This was written by Matthew Buchinger born Without Hands or Feet 1674 in Germany"); surface soiling, fold separations with loss to the manuscript, corners clipped. Mounted on a slip of a mounting leaf cut out of a scrapbook, with fragments of humorous newspaper clippings on verso.