Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £100 |
Ellen, or The Naughty Girl Reclaimed, A Story, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. London: "Printed for S. and J. Fuller, at the Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place, Where are also sold Books of Instruction in Landscapes, Flowers, and Figures, and ever requisite used in Drawing," 1811. Booklet: 12mo (125 x 100mm). (Variable spotting, staining and browning throughout the booklet.) Original printed wrappers with typographical borders, stitched, advertisements on verso (some light staining, upper edge with small piece torn away), original printed slipcase, stitched (stained and rather worn). With 9 original hand-coloured aquatint cut-out figures of Ellen and an interchangeable head which fits into a clip on the verso of each figure, and one hat only ([?]of 5). RARE. Provenance: The Property of the late Frank Graham (1913-2006), and thence by descent; "Ann Armstrong Her Book" (old inscription on front pastedown of booklet). The author is unknown. RARE. Not in the BL or Gumuchian; Osborne p.1051.