Auction Highlights: Printed Books, Maps and Manuscripts
23 March 2010 · Bonhams, New Bond Street, London
A couple of very desirable items that will appeal to the ephemera collector are in this auction.
Lot No: 116: Cinderella; or The Little Glass Slipper; Versified and Beautifully Illustrated with Figures
The first British edition of one of the scarcest of the cut-out paper-doll books invented and issued by S and J Fuller, Temple of Fancy, Rathbone Place in 1814. Estimate: £600-£800. "Inside all of these books were seven cut-out figures in different costumes (all hand-coloured) and a single head with a long tag for the neck which could be inserted into a paper pocket at the back of each figure..." (Peter Haining, Movable Books. An Illustrated History, 1979).
Lot No: 138 The Panorama of the Thames from London to Richmond, Exhibiting Every Object on Both Banks of the River and View of London Two hand-coloured aquatint folding panoramic views (approximately 225 x 1730mm., and 217 x 18340mm.) Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
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