
Auction Closed
October 28, 08:54 PM GMT
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
Lot Details
Description
(Invisible Girl)
A group of four handbills and broadsides. [Various Place: circa 1803-1811]
Lot includes: Delphic Oracle. London: Nichols, [circa 1803]. Handbill (120 x 170 mm). Letterpress text in numerous fonts, tipped onto paper; a few faint spots, minor tear or paper flaw to upper margin. — Invisible Girl. Hinckley?: n.p., 1811. Handbill (190 x 110 mm). Letterpress text in numerous fonts; a few pinholes and spots, minor marginal soiling, ink annotation on verso. — (Mrs. Jackson). The Original Royal Acoustic Temple and Astonishing Invisible Lady. Hull: Robert Peck, 1804. Broadside (398 x 200 mm). Letterpress text in numerous fonts, large woodcut of the Acoustic Temple, mounted on paper with contemporary manuscript accounts of the performance; some spotting. — Visible and Invisible Girls… London: Topping, [circa 1804]. Handbill (185 x 112 mm). Letterpress text in numerous fonts; old folds.
Group lots not subject to return.
Invisible women, astonishing deceptions, and other illusions.