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DORSET BUMPKINS LITHOGRAPHED

[LITHOGRAPHY]. FOX, Buscall. The shapwick monster, with illustrations.

Blandford. Published by F. Clemence, Bookseller, 1841. First edition.
Quarto. 10pp. With four lithographed plates. Original publisher's stitched lithographed paper wrappers. A little rubbed and marked, short tears to spine, with slight surface loss to margins. Ink inscription 'From Mr Orndell(?)' to upper wrapper. One plate detached.
A rare provincial account, with a lithographed wrapper and four plates lithographed by S. Straker, of Bishopgate St., London, of the origins of the farcical Dorset legend of the Shapwick Monster; a crab dropped by a travelling fishmonger from Poole en route to Bere Regis mistaken for a 'Monster' by a 'country clown' who stirred up an angry mob of locals to repel the invader. It is the only known work of Buscall Fox (1818-87), East Anglian painter, who was lodging in Dorset at the time of this work's publication.

Neither COPAC nor OCLC locate a single copy.
£ 500.00 Antiquates Ref: 14860