J. Theobald and Company's extra special illustrated catalogue of magic lanterns, slides and apparatus (From the smallest Toy Lanterns and Slides to the most elaborate Professional Apparatus (c. 1900)
A London trade catalogue issued around 1900 by J. Theobald & Co., listing magic lanterns, lantern slides and optical apparatus for showmen, schoolmasters and buyers of toy lanterns. Wood-engraved cuts show slipping and lever slides in their wooden frames, with circular picture fields holding ships, cottages, skipping figures and comic sequences, all rendered in dense hatched line against printed text; useful for circular vignette frames, hatched grounds and small narrative figure strips.
