(Trades) | A rare work featuring plates of a fortune teller and a conjurer

(Trades)

The Arts, Trades, and Cries of Paris, Taken from Nature. London: J. Izzard, [1818]

12mo (130 x 80 mm). 60 handcolored plates (including frontispiece), frontis of a Bill-sticker incorporating title, captions in French and English; a few stray spots, primarily marginal, faint offsetting, one or two closed marginal tears. Contemporary half red strait-grained morocco and grey paper-covered boards; extremities rubbed with loss, more significant loss to spine, lower board detached, upper board nearly detached.

A rare and whimsical work

The present work illustrates various trades, including a fortune teller (plate 19), a conjurer (plate 25), and a seller of lottery tickets (plate 41). Plate 52 incorporates the imprint of the French publisher, J.M. Petit.

OCLC locates only two other institutional holdings: Princeton and Indiana University. 

REFERENCE:

Beall F45; OCLC 1102575631