The Collection of Edwin A. Dawes Part III
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Lot 386
MATTHEWS, Charles (1776 – 1835). Four Chapbooks About the Q...
Estimate: $1,000 - $1,500
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MATTHEWS, Charles (1776 ? 1835). Four Chapbooks About the Quick-Change Artist and Ventriloquist. Including: Account of Mr. Matthews' At Home. London: Printed and Published by Duncombe, ca. 1820. Printed wraps (detached). Folding colored frontis. 28pp.; Mr. Matthews' Celebrated Lecture on Character ? The Home Circuit. London: J. Limbird, ca. 1820. Printed wrappers (detached).; Mr. Matthews in America. London: Duncombe, ca. 1820. Printed wraps. Folding colored frontis. 20pp. Wraps detached.; and Mr. Matthews' Memorandum-Book. London: Duncombe, ca. 1822. Buff printed wraps (detached). Folding hand-colored frontispiece. Includes an advertisement for M. Henry on verso of title page. 24pp. 12mos; all fragile but intact, with a few Dawes bookplates tipped-in. A very good group of chapbooks related to this mimic, quick-change, artist, humorist, and proto-ventriloquist popular with London audiences in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. SCARCE.
