[Pop-up books] Twelve titles: (1) Weedon, L.L. & E. Fletcher, a.o. The Model Menagerie

With Natural History Stories. London/ New York (printed in Bavaria), E. Nister, E.P. Dutton & Co, n.d. (ca. 1895), 14 lvs, w. 6 chromolithogr. open-worked pop-up plates showing animals in their cages, monochrome ills., orig. clothbacked chromolithogr. pict. boards, obl. folio. Some sm. defects to pop-ups, inner hinges strengthened w. (cloth) tape throughout, vaguely waterst. in blank outer margins (also backcover, w. a few other stains), some edgewear. An acceptable copy, w. owner's entry in pen dated 1896 on free endpaper and sm. bookseller's ticket of Burgis & Colbourne (Lemington) on upper pastedown. (2) Krenn's Theater Album N. 2. Dornröschen. Zeichnungen von Mario Zamini. Gemalt von Felice de' Cavero. Leipsic, Verlag Mediterranea Wilhelm Krenn, (1943), when fully opened a hexagon is formed w. 6 see-through scenes, orig. clothbacked pict. boards, obl. 4to. Front cover cracked, extremities worn; the button for keeping the hexagonal open re-attached in the wrong way. -and 10 similar others.

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