Aug 04, 2022 - Sale 2612

Sale 2612 - Lot 182

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

DESIGNER UNKNOWN

THE BLACK CROOK. Circa 1900.


39x28 1/2 inches, 99x72 1/2 cm. The Metropolitan Printing Co., New York.
Condition B+: replaced losses and tape stains in margins; repaired tears and creases in margins and image.

A salacious comedy with Faustian overtones, first performed in 1866, that is sometimes considered (erroneously) to be the first American musical. Rare