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Dick's parlor exhibitions containing a large and varied collection of elegant home amusements ..

Dick, William Brisbane. [from old catalog] · 1882 · New York, Dick & Fitzgerald · 14 pictures

Dick's Parlor Exhibitions is a late nineteenth-century American book of home amusements and parlor entertainments, compiled by William Brisbane Dick and published in New York by Dick and Fitzgerald in 1882 for family entertainment. Its pictures are small pen-and-ink wood engravings with loose hatching and simple backgrounds, showing a hand with a coin, a child bending over, a rider on a galloping horse, and a laughing face, useful for quick, humorous spot illustration.

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