$7,000
Breslaw, Philip. Breslaw’s Last Legacy: or, The Conjuror Unmasked. London: Printed and Sold at No. 48, Great Queen-Street, Lincoln’s Inn-Fields; J. Barker, Russell-Court, Drury Lane; and by All Booksellers and Stationers, 1792. Tenth edition. Paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Engraved frontispiece. 12mo. Boards worn, otherwise very good. Toole Stott 131. The frontispiece of this volume depicts the “Droll trick of a Cambridge scholar,” described on page 33. It is a stunt most often associated with the famous mountebank Max Malini: when a cooked chicken lying on a platter is poked with a fork, it springs up off the platter and runs off the table, crowing loudly and very much alive.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
