[Original folio cover for seven phenakistoscope disks]
Pre-cinema
S. W. Fores
British, 1761–1838
[Original folio cover for seven phenakistoscope disks]
Fores' Moving Panorama or Optical Illusion
1833
Paper and card
Overall: 10 × 10 in. (25.4 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Ruth H. Marshall
Inscriptions Printed on label, adhered to front cover: 41, Piccadilly\FORES'S\MOVING PANORAMA,\OR\Optical Illusions,\GIVING LIFE AND ACTIVITY TO INANIMATE OBJECTS.\A NUT FOR PHILOSOPHERS TO CRACK.
Printed on label, adhered to front cover: R. Ackerman Innr.\191\Regent Street
Printed on label, adhered to inside front over: FORES'S\OPTICAL ILLUSIONS,\PUBLISHED AT\41, PICCADILLY\Screw on one subject at a time,-hold it before\a Looking Glass, looking through the small holes,-\the distance regulated by the eye. Turn round the\subject some one way and some the other. Care\should be taken to have a good light upon the\subject. They show well by candle light.\Several New Subjects in hand.
Printed on label, adhered to front cover: R. Ackerman Innr.\191\Regent Street
Printed on label, adhered to inside front over: FORES'S\OPTICAL ILLUSIONS,\PUBLISHED AT\41, PICCADILLY\Screw on one subject at a time,-hold it before\a Looking Glass, looking through the small holes,-\the distance regulated by the eye. Turn round the\subject some one way and some the other. Care\should be taken to have a good light upon the\subject. They show well by candle light.\Several New Subjects in hand.
