The Ricky Jay Collection
Sat, Feb 25, 2023 12:00PM EST
Lot 302
ROWLAND, Mrs. Bridget Garratt. The Gypsy’s Present, or New ...
Estimate: $400 - $800
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ROWLAND, Mrs. Bridget Garratt. THE GYPSY?S PRESENT, OR NEW NORWOOD FORTUNE TELLER. London: Printed and Published by W. Mason, ca. 1830. Old plain paper wraps. Hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece of a gypsy woman approaching two ladies at home. Wood-engraved images in text. [1-3], 4 ? 35, [36]. Publisher?s ads on verso of terminal leaf. A few dog-eared pages, faint browning; very good. One of a series of chapbooks that explains, ??in the clearest manner, every one?s fortune, with the most infallible certainty, by palmistry; the true, plain and undoubted signification of moles; the first principles of astrology, by which all may ascertain their destiny; also, the art of fortune-telling by cards ? with poetical explanations for both sexes.?
