Sep 30, 2021 - Sale 2580

Sale 2580 - Lot 76

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CHILDREN'S BOOKS.) [Benjamin Sands.] Metamorphosis; or, A Transformation of Pictures, with Poetical Explanations, for the Amusement of Young Persons. Numerous engravings by Poupard. [8 or 12] pages, depending on how you would like to count them, on [4] leaves. 12mo, disbound, with partial restitching; worn with leaves 5 and 6 separated at folds, moderate foxing. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, 1816 (printed in Philadelphia by J. Rakestraw)
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4 of the pages have folding flaps at top and bottom. Adam confronting the serpent transforms into Eve as a mermaid; a wealthy man transforms to an eerie skeleton hovering over his own death-bed; a lion transforms to a griffin and then an enormous eagle making off with an infant. At the rear is a three-masted ship flying the American flag. This elaborate toy book was originally printed in one sheet, but is here separated into 4 leaves and then restitched into a little booklet.

WITH--the last two leaves from a slightly different printing, probably Welch 1163.34, which differs only in its corner ornaments.