Sugg, Christopher Lee | That renowned Professor of Internal Elocution

Sugg, Christopher Lee

The Ventriloquist in a Coal Hole!!! London: W. Glindon, 1816

Broadside (430 x 165 mm). Printed on pink paper, numerous fonts, woodcut royal coat of arms at top; old folds, possible repair to lower right margin, partially tipped onto paper. matted, framed, and glazed with Plexiglas; not examined out of frame.  

"The Original Ventriloquist"

"Sugg was a peculiar character, an opportunist and a late bloomer. He learned ventriloquism in his fifties, and in that same decade of his life had a daughter, who before she was six appeared in his show as a precocious actress, 'The Infant Roscius' … Sugg performed into into his seventies, no doubt because of financial imperative, and died on the Isle of Wight in October 1831" (EE 75).   

REFERENCE:

Exemplars 302; EE 75-76