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| Punch's Puppet Show, or, The Humours of Bartholomew Fair Robert Sayer, 1792 This and all related images from: The George Speaight Punch & Judy Archive. The Victoria & Albert Museum |
“Punch's Puppet Show, or, The Humours of Bartholomew Fair” is a fold-out flip book depicting sixteen scenes from a Punch & Judy show as well as other entertainments. This unusual book was published by Robert Sayer in London, 1792.
The book is sandwiched with two sheets of paper and a book plate is stuck to one of these sheets which features a crest on it and reads: "Be Just and Fear Not, Ex Libris, Edward Arnold, Andrew W. Arnold, The Grove, Dorking, Surrey".
Eight scenes are clearly visible when the book is flat and each of these individually folds down to show another image beneath.
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