Set Reminder2025-02-15 12:00:002025-02-15 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-collection-of-edwin-a-dawes-part-iii-21889 Our final single-owner sale from the Dawes collection is rich with conjuring curiosa of all types, including early broadsides, memorabilia from the Theatre Robert-Houdin, early and important magic textbooks, unusual Victorian apparatus, and bright stone lithographs from the golden age of the art.
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[FAWKES]. Bartholomew Fair. London: J.F. Setchel, 1721. Aquatint fan leaf commemorating the annual Bartholomew Fair and picturing the amusements, booths, and entertainers who took part in the event, among them Isaac Fawkes and his ?dexterity of hand" presenting the Egg Bag and card tricks on a large placard above his booth, with a second billboard picturing the ?posture masters" (contortionists) who worked alongside him, a peep show titled ?The Siege of Gibraltar," rope dancers, and more. 15 x 22". A few short tears in margins, scattered spotting. See BM 1214.27.