Automaton Chess Player & Mechanical Illusion.- Reynell (H., printer) Mechanics, broadside advertisement for "The famous Automaton", single page letterpress on laid paper, central fold, slightly stained and soiled, 310 x 190mm., folio, Printed by H. Reynell, (No.21) Piccadilly, near the Hay-Market, [1784].

⁂ Unrecorded broadside advertising the famous chess-playing automaton hoax "The Turk". Textually slightly different from the following lot and that sold in these rooms as lot 40, September 27th 2018, most obviously in the title, but also in other places - the address "No.8, in Saville Row, Burlington Gardens" is here included in lines 2 and 3; the second paragraph is longer with 8 lines instead of 4, whilst the fourth paragraph is shorter and the fifth longer again. The differences and in particular the simplicity of the title would suggest that this is an earlier version than both the following lot and that sold last year, in both cases where the title was 'elaborated' to "The Famous Chess-Player". No copy found on ESTC, COPAC or WorldCat.