The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

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(Chapbooks) | Fortune telling and romances

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000 - 3,000 USD

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(Chapbooks)

A group of six chapbooks in two volumes, mostly romances but including two on Dick Spot, the Conjuror


12mo (178 x 102 mm). First volume contains 5 chapbooks in a contemporary speckled calf (one flyleaf dated 1807). Each with engraved frontispiece (Mother Goose handcolored), all but the last offsetting to title-page. Second volume contains one chapbook regarding Dick Spot, printed on blue paper, somewhat faded and browned around the edges, in period style calf-backed marbled boards.


[Richard Morris]. The Life and Mysterious Transactions of Richard Morris, Esq. Better Known by … Dick Spot, the Conjuror. London, [?1798]. ESTC T89726; Toole Stott 496 (dated 1789) — C.F. Barrett. Allanrod; or, The Mysterious Freebooter. London, [ca. 1806] — Duncan; or the Shade of Gertrude. London, [ca. 1800] — Matthew Gregory Lewis. The History of Raymond and Agnes; or, The Castle of Lindenberg. London, [1799]. An extract from Lewis's novel The Monk. — Fairburn's Description of the Popular and Comic New Pantomime Called Harlequin and Mother Goose, or The Golden Egg. London, [ca. 1806] — Dick Spot's Last Gift: Containing the Charms and Methods … to Secure Houses, Gardens, etc. from Thieves … to Which is Added, the Complete Art of Telling Fortune … Third Edition. Chester, 1799 


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