£40.00
Oblong in format, bound in colour decorated blue paper wrappers, illustration on lower cover. Inside is an 8 panel concertina panorama which opens vertically, on each panel is a large bright chromo-lithograph illustration with a humorous 4 line verse below. Adventures of an artist to visits a zoo to study animals in situ. He endeavors to draw and paint the animals despite all of the difficulties he faces only for him dropping his finished work and the wind carries it into the boar encampment who promptly eats his work The wrapper extremities are chipped, the contents do not sit well in wrapper which is a little trimmed along the top edge The wrapper does have minor creases, some chipped edges and the last section of the panorama is stained on verso not affecting image, in very good condition. All volumes are scarce due to their ephemeral nature and rarely come up at auction.Only four titles can be found in UK library’s.
Size of book folded 67 x 115 mm, 2 5/8 x 4½ inches
Size of book panorama 6.5 x 78cm [2.5 x 31 inches]
No publisher given but the name James Daniels, Aberdeen, has come up at the Library in Scotland . But also, which I think is more likely, it the information on Wikipedia. There was a magazine titled ‘Funny Folks’ a British periodical published between 1874 and 1894. It was published in London by Scottish newspaper proprietor James Henderson. These were often satirical in tone, with some by john Proctor known as Puck, and some from German and French sources. It was aimed at an adult lower middle-class audience, rather than at children, and benefited from innovations in the use of cheap paper . I suspect these relate to the periodical. I have only ever seen three titles in this series. Not only that, John Proctor who worked regularly on Young Folks and Funny Folks, is very similar to the illustrations found in these albums. Due to greedy hackers the whole library system in the UK is unable to be utilized. So unable to continue my research. There is only one set held listed on Jisc Library Hub and a small number of single issues.
Publisher: Funny Folks
Date: 1890
Book ID: 60003643
