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The World Turned Up-side Down: or the comical metamorphoses...London: Printed for and sold by RYLAND...Price 1. Plain. 2. Coloured n.d. [c.1785].
Square 16° (115 x 93mm). Collation: A-D8. Inset title-page, with vignette; frontispiece; introductory plate and 31 numbered pictures all engraved on copper (pages handled and grubby, final leaf crumpled and repaired, frontispiece misplaced after title-page). (Resewn into sheep-backed marbled boards, lacking end papers.) CBY no.736.
This was the illustrated text that formed the basis for Ann and Jane Taylor's re-working in Signor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic-lantern (see below Lot ???). A & M no.101.
Square 16° (115 x 93mm). Collation: A-D8. Inset title-page, with vignette; frontispiece; introductory plate and 31 numbered pictures all engraved on copper (pages handled and grubby, final leaf crumpled and repaired, frontispiece misplaced after title-page). (Resewn into sheep-backed marbled boards, lacking end papers.) CBY no.736.
This was the illustrated text that formed the basis for Ann and Jane Taylor's re-working in Signor Topsy-Turvy's Wonderful Magic-lantern (see below Lot ???). A & M no.101.