May 01, 2014 - Sale 2348

Sale 2348 - Lot 139

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 80 - $ 120
(ROMANCE/HORROR.) The awful Visitation of Four Dreadful Monsters, to four Young Women, at one of their Houses in this Town, where they had met for the Purpose of seeing their intended Husbands [caption title]. Woodcut vignette of devil at top. Handbill, printed on one side only, 340x128 mm; paper toned, with one small stain and several horizontal creases. [Newcastle upon Tyne]: Fordyce, Printer, 29, Sandhill, early 1800s
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Apparently unrecorded handbill describing the nightmarish experience of 4 local lasses who were expecting to meet their sweethearts but instead encountered "no other than his satanic majesty and three of his imps."