[Blondin, Charles] | A high-wire daredevil act

[Blondin, Charles]
Blondin’s Marvellous Feats. London: Read & Co., [cover title], ca. 1865

Twenty handcolored lithographed illustrations (127 x 140 mm), each with a rhyming couplet below. Bound concertina style, pictorial label on front cover over red cloth, lower cover blocked in blind, advertisements used as endpapers at the end; age darkened, light staining to lower cover.

As part of his high-wire act, Blondin cooks on an iron stove, piggy backs another man across the rope, plays a violin, employs stilts, etc.

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