The Grandpère of the MAD Fold-in
Shades of Al Jaffee and MAD Magazine . . .
A printed and folded novelty celebrating Louis XVIII, King of France, 1814-1824.
(Published by J.B. Verzy, circa 1814).
The piece unfolds to spell out the virtues of the man who ruled during the Bourbon Restoration.
Icteric
The first issue of Icteric, an arts magazine published in 1967-68 by David and Stuart Wise, who would go on to form the King Mob.
Dueling Apple Pies
Two versions of the well-known ABC tale, The History of An Apple Pie, both from the early 19th century, but which came first?
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Clarification, please.
An 1829 poem on Leigh Park, a suburb of Hampshire, England, when it was still a bucolic estate.
With a tenderly enlightening footnote.
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