Lot 251
Paper Doll Book - The Changeable Costumes
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 31 August 2016 at 12:00 BST
£575
Description
or in which do you like me best ? An Elegant and Amusing Companion for the Drawing Room Table and Forming a Pleasing Series of Highly Coloured Heads, for Young Ladies to copy from. London: for the Proprietor, [c.1837], seven cardboard leaves, the first with a hand-coloured engraving of a portrait of a woman, the other six each with a different hand-coloured engraving of a costume, with a cut-away face, some dust-soiling, each approx 132 x 118mm, loosely contained as issued in original blue-grey card wrappers, rubbed and soiled, ribbon loose