Lot 43
[Broadside] The Beginning, Progress and End of Man, the printed sheet with five sets of cut flaps, each with woodcut images, the flaps opening to reveal a second series of five images beneath, third edition, hand-coloured, possibly later, heavily creased, some paper loss to folds, affecting the first and second verse substantially, the sixth verse with staining and minor loss of text, 390mm x 305mm, [London]: Printed for J. Deacon at the Angel in Gilt-Spur-Street, [c.1688-89] [ESTC R175526]
Provenance: Thomas Pengelly (1675-1730), Lord Chief Justice, thence by descent.
RARE. First published during the Civil War, this text is one of the earliest 'turn-up' religious texts. A 1650 example in the British Library [669.f.15.(34)] would appear to be smaller. A similar example to the one offered here may be found in the Bodleian Library, under the Anthony Wood Collection. [Wood 25E (10)]. No other coloured examples are known.
