Panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show
Covent Garden, H.G. Clarke and Co., [circa 1870s].
Light blue pictorial wrappers (approximately 145 × 115 mm) containing a large wood-engraved folding panorama (in two sections printed on the one sheet, 283 × 883 mm), with very basic hand-colouring in red and yellow; in excellent condition.
'In the 1870s H.G. Clarke sold ... a paper panorama of the Lord Mayor's Show, complete with instructions on how to construct your own toy panorama proscenium for performance. Panoramas of the Lord Mayor's Show, crudely printed and often hand-coloured, were sold on the streets of the Cities of London and Westminster on 9 of November, and continued to be until well into the 20th century' (Maurice Rickards: 'Encyclopedia of Ephemera', page 219).
Item #106976
Price (AUD):
$400.00