Imaginative author Robert Louis Stevenson wrote in his 1884 essay,A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured, “whether you worship art, and folly,or the bright eyes of children, speed to Pollock’s…”[1] The toy theatre was a beloved pastime in 19th-century England that appealed to the creativity and craftsmanship of children and adults. Benjamin Pollock inherited his...
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