Comedians de Mephisto Co. | Worlds Monarch(s) of Magic

Comedians de Mephisto Co.

Comedians de Mephisto Co. Le Roy * Talma * Bosco. Worlds Monarchs of Magic. Hamburg: Lith Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1905 (no. 3308) — Le Roy * Talma * Bosco. Servais Le Roy. Worlds Monarch of Magic. Hamburg: Lith Adolph Friedländer, ca. 1909 (no. 4238)

2 color lithograph posters (18 7/8 x 28 in.; 481 x 712 and the slightly smaller reverse). The first lightly browned, with fold creases and closed marginal tears, laid down on illustration board; the second lightly browned, fold creases with some repair, a couple of surface chips.

The earlier poster shows an excited Bosco and a bored demon watching Le Roy and Talma perform the transformation "A Flying Visit." The later one depicts "Le Roys Incredibly Marvellous Effect. The Greatest Levitation Mystery Ever Shown."

REFERENCE:

Illusions 10, 141