A Brief Account of the Thames Tunnel, B. Azulay, circa 1860, four hand-coloured lithograph divisions, showing pedestrians in the Tunnel, back-scene slightly frayed to lower margin, blue front board with mounted green label showing the Rotherhithe entrance (rubbed), two circular peepholes, 9.5 x 14.5cm (3.75 x 5.75ins), extending 58cm (23ins), laid into an unrelated contemporary blind-stamped cloth binding (as issued), gilt lettered on spine 'Facts and Fancies &c. Sedgwick', somewhat rubbed, and short split at foot of spine, printed explanatory label mounted on front pastedown (with vertical crease) See Gestetner Collection 266, 267 and 270 for similar. Publisher Bondy Yomtob Azulay, a German immigrant, specialised in peepshows of the Thames Tunnel, which curiously, he sometimes mounted inside discarded empty book bindings. (1)
A Brief Account of the Thames Tunnel, B. Azulay, circa 1860, four hand-coloured lithograph divisions, showing pedestrians in the Tunnel, back-scene slightly frayed to lower margin, blue front board with mounted green label showing the Rotherhithe entrance (rubbed), two circular peepholes, 9.5 x 14.5cm (3.75 x 5.75ins), extending 58cm (23ins), laid into an unrelated contemporary blind-stamped cloth binding (as issued), gilt lettered on spine 'Facts and Fancies &c. Sedgwick', somewhat rubbed, and short split at foot of spine, printed explanatory label mounted on front pastedown (with vertical crease) See Gestetner Collection 266, 267 and 270 for similar. Publisher Bondy Yomtob Azulay, a German immigrant, specialised in peepshows of the Thames Tunnel, which curiously, he sometimes mounted inside discarded empty book bindings. (1)
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