Gyngell, G. | The 19th century fairground aficionado of phantasmagoria

Gyngell, G.

By Permission of the Right Worshipful Mayor…First Time here, the Original and Much-Improved Ergascopia or Phantasmagoria! Hull: Thomas Topping, 1827

Broadside (446 x 182 mm). Numerous fonts, woodcut vignette of a conjuring at top; old folds with tissue reinforcements on verso, marginal browning, one or two marginal chips. 

"An exhibition demonstrative of those Optical Delusions which, in the 'long by gone times' were too often resorted to by the Priesthood, and those persons called Conjurers, to astonish and intimidate those unacquainted or unsuspicious of Arts (designated Miracles), which not unfrequently unhinged the mind, and worked it up to phrenzy [sic]" (broadside text).  

REFERENCE:

Exemplars, p. 187; EE, p. 32