Ladies & gentlemen: I am deaf and dumb : consequently am obliged, so as to earn my livelihood to offer for sale to the sympathetic public the present little book which contains 72 humorous shadowgraphs.

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<p>Booklet containing 72 'shadowgraphs' (images made from the shadows of people's hands with a few props). Includes a chart of the manual alphabet and a portrait of the Abbot Charles de l'Épée (1712-1789), "originator of the deaf and dumb alphabet".</p>

Ladies & gentlemen: I am deaf and dumb : consequently am obliged, so as to earn my livelihood to offer for sale to the sympathetic public the present little book which contains 72 humorous shadowgraphs.

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