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The Ricky Jay Collection Part III

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Lot 457

SUGG, Christopher Lee (d. 1831). The Ventriloquist in a Coa...

Estimate: $800 - $1,200

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SUGG, Christopher Lee (d. 1831). The Ventriloquist in a Coal Hole!!! London: W. Glindon, 1816. Letterpress broadside on pink stock advertising ?the only ventriloquist in Europe, who will display his wonderful powers for the time specified only? who was also known as a professor of ?internal elocution.? Sharing the bill with Sugg are ?gamesters? who will present ?wonderful tricks with cards, eggs, money, boxes, rings? .? 20 ? x 8 ??. Archivally framed; not examined out of frame. See?Exemplars, p. 302.