Amusement After Dinner, or The Corsican Fairy Displaying His Prowess!
by West, Templeton (attr.)
- Used
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- Seller
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Roslindale, Massachusetts, United States
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About This Item
1803. Sheet. Very Good Condition. ca. 10" x 14" sheet, hand colored etching depicting a tiny Napoleon on King George III and Queen Charlotte's dinner table which holds a single blancmange (they were famous - and famously mocked - for their restrained eating habits). Napoleon: "If I could but get over this dish of Blanche Mange, I would soon invade the Pine Apple". Notes and paperlifts from a previous mounting on verso, light browning in a few spots.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Humour. Inventory No: CAT000652.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Pazzo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CAT000652
- Title
- Amusement After Dinner, or The Corsican Fairy Displaying His Prowess!
- Author
- West, Templeton (attr.)
- Format/Binding
- Sheet
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1803
- Keywords
- Cooking, Wine & Dining; Humour. NOISBN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Humour;
Terms of Sale
Pazzo Books
Returns accepted for any reason within 30 days of shipment - full refund less shipping. If we have made a mistake, we will pay shipping both ways. Institutions billed according to their requirements.
About the Seller
Pazzo Books
Biblio member since 2003
Roslindale, Massachusetts
About Pazzo Books
For years an open shop in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and West Roxbury, now by appointment only and back in Roslindale. We carry a range of rare and out of print books with strengths in literature, cookery and early printing. We are members of the ABAA and ILAB.
Glossary
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.