Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of

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Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay

An informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying, and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth-century broadsides from Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection.
It includes observations on the convention of promoting such appearances, digressions on the manner and method of printing advertisements to do so, and insights into the psychology employed to that end. All are compiled in a monograph that is itself a shameless attempt to entertain and elucidate.

It is the contention of the author that neither the tongue of the most florid orator, nor pen of the most ingenious writer, can sufficiently describe the elegance, symmetry, and prodigious accomplishments of those who pass in review within these pages

Included are broadsides advertising: an armless dulcimer player, a ghost showman, a singing mouse, a chess-playing automaton, a cannon ball juggler, an African hermaphrodite, a chicken incubator, a rabbi with prodigious memory, a ventriloquist, a spirit medium, a glass blower, a woman magician, a speaking machine, a mermaid, a bullet catcher, a flea circus, and an equestrian bee keeper. Illustrated throughout
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer Quantuck Lane Press
Binding Hardcover
EANs 9781593720124
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer	Quantuck Lane Press
Binding	Hardcover
EANs	9781593720124
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Extraordinary Exhibitions: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay

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