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Creator:
Soulby, W. H
Title(s):
The surprise art album : a new book containing over one hundred amusing and interesting picture puns / by W.H. Soulby.
Edition:
Second edition.
Published/Created:
London : Cartwright & Rattray, [1900]
Physical Description:
[26] p. : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PN6231.P8 S68 1900+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Consists of jokes, riddles & puns; answers are revealed on small chromolithographed insets under gilt edged flaps.
Issued earlier under title: The hoax art album.
British Museum. General catalogue of printed books to 1955 (compact edition), v. 23, p. 1016
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in maroon publishers cloth, stamped in black, with small white paper onlay.
Subject Terms:
Cartwright & Rattray -- Publisher.
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Lift-the-flap books -- Specimens.
Toy and movable books -- Specimens.
Wit and humor, Pictorial.
Form/Genre:
Puns.
Recreations.
Chromolithographs -- 1900.
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