Hand Shadows to Be Thrown Upon the Wall

Name: Hand Shadows to Be Thrown Upon the Wall
Author: Henry Bursill

by Henry Bursill

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

Originally published by Griffith and Farran in 1859.

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EBook produced by David Starner and Heather Martino

Release date

2004-07-20

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Finger play Shadow-pictures

About the author

Henry Bursill

Best known for a wonderfully inventive Victorian book on shadow play, this 19th-century writer turned simple hand shapes into a small theater of rabbits, birds, and other figures. His work still feels playful and surprisingly practical, which helps explain why it has stayed in circulation.

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