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Auction archive: Lot number 559

Children's & Illustrated Books

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$374 - US$499
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 559

Children's & Illustrated Books

Estimate
£300 - £400
ca. US$374 - US$499
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Hubert, the Cottage Youth. Being the Sequel to Phoebe, the Cottage Maid, Exemplified in a Series of Rural Figures, 1st edition, printed for S. and J. Fuller, 1812, printed booklet with seven (of 8) cut-out hand-coloured aquatint scenic figures loosely inserted, with later hand-made interchangeable head, lacking head-pieces and the figure for 'He associates with Phoebe', three figures with closed tear sometime reinforced with paper on verso, one with portion of stick lacking, another with half of one arm missing, original printed wrappers (slightly rubbed and without silk tie), in matching card slipcase (with old paper repair to edges), 16mo, together with a cut-out hand-coloured aquatint figure of a barber holding a wig on a stand, with slot for interchangeable head, from Frank Feignwell's Attempts to Amuse His Friends, published by Fuller in 1811, plus a later edition of The History of Little Henry, booklet in slipcase, but no figures, all items contained together in an unrelated cloth solander box Provenance: From the library of Percy H. Muir. Gumuchian 1999-2001 (all incomplete); Osborne, p.1052 (lacking at least one head-piece). One of the rarest of all the Fuller paper dolls. (1)

Auction archive: Lot number 559
Auction:
Datum:
15 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
Beschreibung:

Hubert, the Cottage Youth. Being the Sequel to Phoebe, the Cottage Maid, Exemplified in a Series of Rural Figures, 1st edition, printed for S. and J. Fuller, 1812, printed booklet with seven (of 8) cut-out hand-coloured aquatint scenic figures loosely inserted, with later hand-made interchangeable head, lacking head-pieces and the figure for 'He associates with Phoebe', three figures with closed tear sometime reinforced with paper on verso, one with portion of stick lacking, another with half of one arm missing, original printed wrappers (slightly rubbed and without silk tie), in matching card slipcase (with old paper repair to edges), 16mo, together with a cut-out hand-coloured aquatint figure of a barber holding a wig on a stand, with slot for interchangeable head, from Frank Feignwell's Attempts to Amuse His Friends, published by Fuller in 1811, plus a later edition of The History of Little Henry, booklet in slipcase, but no figures, all items contained together in an unrelated cloth solander box Provenance: From the library of Percy H. Muir. Gumuchian 1999-2001 (all incomplete); Osborne, p.1052 (lacking at least one head-piece). One of the rarest of all the Fuller paper dolls. (1)

Auction archive: Lot number 559
Auction:
Datum:
15 Dec 2016
Auction house:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Mallard House
Broadway Lane, South Cerney, Nr Cirencester
Gloucestershire, GL75UQ
United Kingdom
info@dominicwinter.co.uk
+44 (0)1285 860006
+44 (0)1285 862461
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