Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay - Rilegato

 
9781593720124: Extraordinary Exhibitions: The Wonderful Remains of an Enormous Head, the Whimsiphusicon & Death to the Savage Unitarians: Broadsides from the Collection of Ricky Jay
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ISBN 10: 1593720122 ISBN 13: 9781593720124
Casa editrice: Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd, 2005

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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 pagesIncluded 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.

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Editore
Quantuck Lane Pr & the Mill rd
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1593720122
ISBN 13 
9781593720124
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
172
Redattore
Jay Ricky
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