A table game published by John Wallis called The Mirror of Truth was one of two notable juvenilia lots in the opening children’s and illustrated books section of a March 6 Devon sale.
Comprising both a linen-mounted playing board and a 36pp instruction booklet, together with the original pictorial case, it far exceeded the expectations of Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood (21% buyer’s premium) when it sold at £880.
A Meggandorfer moveable toy-book, Princess Rose-Petal and her Adventures, circa 1900, served as the catalogue cover illustration. However, with some defects, it sold short of expectations at £450.