May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 52

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HANGED FOR GAMBLING? HEY, YOU NEVER KNOW (CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Wood, Samuel; printer. The Wonderful Advantages of Adventuring in the Lottery. Woodcut illustrations likely by Alexander Anderson. 12mo, pictorial wrappers, threads missing, scattered soiling and wear, child's early pencil drawings on wrappers (not cover); advertisements in rear. New York, 1814

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A Cheap Repository-style tract against gambling, originally published in London in 1797. The sad cautionary tale involves a lottery, murder, and the ultimate punishment. Welch 1449.2.