This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/28/2023
[MINSTRELSY] LINWOOD GALLERY, LEICESTER SQUARE / A NEW ENTERTAINMENT, BLACK OPERA BUFFO / REAL NEGROES. Lambeth: J.W. Peel’s Steam Machine: 1851. Letterpress handbill promoting this early minstrel act, “direct from the cotton fields of America, in their inimitable plantation festivity & pastimes.” 7¾ × 5". Few small chips along left edge. The “precursors of the Moore and Burgess Minstrels,” who “probably carried their burnt cork in their pockets.” (Cardwell et al., Two Centuries of Soho, London, 1898), p. 287.