The Ricky Jay Collection Part II
Sat, Oct 28, 2023 12:00PM EDT
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Lot 220
[MINSTRELSY] Linwood Gallery, Leicester Square / A New Ente...
Estimate: $250 - $350
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[MINSTRELSY] LINWOOD GALLERY, LEICESTER SQUARE / A NEW ENTERTAINMENT, BLACK OPERA BUFFO / REAL NEGROES. Lambeth: J.W. Peel?s Steam Machine: 1851. Letterpress handbill promoting this early minstrel act, ?direct from the cotton fields of America, in their inimitable plantation festivity & pastimes.? 7? ? 5". Few small chips along left edge. The ?precursors of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels,? who ?probably carried their burnt cork in their pockets.? (Cardwell et al., Two Centuries of Soho, London, 1898), p. 287.
