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THB[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. SMITH, John Thomas. A Book for a Rainy...
Lot 184
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Our final offering from the collection of Ricky Jay will be a collection of curious characters; an anomalous auction of extraordinary objects advertising learned pigs, fireproof women, and so much more. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
Our final offering from the collection of Ricky Jay will be a collection of curious characters; an anomalous auction of extraordinary objects advertising learned pigs, fireproof women, and so much more. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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[EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED]. SMITH, John Thomas. A Book for a Rainy Day; or, Recollections of the Events of the Last Sixty-Six Years. London: Richard Bentley, 1845. Original half buckram with marbled sides, rebacked with cloth. 311pp., plus an extra 190 illustrations. 4to (grangerized from 8vo). Extra-illustrated with 18th and 19th century portraits, views, playbills, maps, an original portrait of Kitty Clive, and more. In various sizes up to full-page, some oval. Includes a portrait of pugilist John Broughton; ?John Rann, alias sixteen-string Jack?; a 1783 portrait of Dr. William Hunter; and others. The author was Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Ownership signature, A.E. Rawlings on front flyleaf. Occasional minor foxing.
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