Paper peepshows : the Jaqueline & Jonathan Gestetner Collection / Ralph Hyde.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyde, Ralph.

Contributor:

Huhtamo, Erkki

Antique Collectors' Club.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gestetner, Jacqueline.

Gestetner, Jonathan.

Peep shows--History--Catalogs.

Peep shows.

Jacqueline & Jonathan Gestetner Collection.

History.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

270 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

[Woodbridge, Suffolk, England] : Antique Collectors' Club, 2015.

Contents:

The Gestetner Paper Peepshow Collection at the V&A

The Story of Paper Peepshows

What we Peep with

Catalogue: Austria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, The Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, United States of America, Unknown Origin.

Appendix 1: Peepshow view-boxes displaying entertainments by Albert Smith

Appendix 2: Table-top tableaux in the Gestetner Collection

Appendix 3: Bôites d'optique in the Gestetner Collection.

Notes:

Foreword by Erkki Huhtamo.

"Endpapers: S. & J. Fuller's 'Masquerade', showing the cut-out panels and the back-scene, 1826."--title page verso.

David Gestetner founded the firm of Gestetner in London in 1881. It was continued in the 20th century by his son Sigmund, and then by his grandsons Jonathan and David (dust jacket page [4]).

Includes bibliographical references (page 257) and a general and title index.

ISBN:

1851498001

9781851498000

OCLC:

898910094