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.

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".