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Professor Pepper [John Henry Pepper]Masonic Hall ... The Haunted Man, or the Ghost’s Bargain. Edinburgh: J. Adamson & Co., [ca. 1863] Broadside playbill (514 x 252 mm). Printed in black and red ink in an assortment of types; not examined out of frame, linen-backed, folds, a few closed tears at margins. Framed and glazed with Plexiglas. Pepper's Ghost was a sensational optical stage effect patented by John Henry Pepper in the second half of the nineteenth century, which created the effect of a spectral figure that could interact with other actors (exceedingly appropriate for adaptations of Dickens, as seen here). Its popularity is hinted at in the present broadside, which warns fellow illusionists that Pepper will "take instant Proceedings against any parties infringing on his Valuable Patent." REFERENCE:Exemplars, p. 194Condition reportCondition as described in catalogue entry.