Description
24mo, pp. 47, [1]. 8 leaves of plates printed in sanguine included within pagination. Original dark green paper wrappers pasted to first and last leaves as issued, front wrapper lettered in ink. Just a touch of wear to spine-ends.
Fun Upon Fun; or the Humours of A Fair. Giving a Description of the Curious Amusements in Early Life: Also an Account of a Mountebank Doctor and his Merry Andrew.
- Glasgow: Sold by J. Lumsden & Son 1816
- Roscoe & Brimmell 72; Hugo 318.
£200
Notes
A sharp copy of a Glasgow-printed juvenile chapbook with three small woodcuts within the text that Hugo attributes to Thomas Bewick; Roscoe and Brimmell offer more tentatively that 'they show is influence' and 'may conceivably have come from his workshop'. Tattersfield does record an engraving of a Merry Andrew figure and cites this chapbook as an example of the use of such a figure, but the image here is not exactly Bewick's or a direct copy.
