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München, Braun & Schneider, [No date, circa 1890]. . 4to (330 x 240 mm.); 8 amusing moving tableaux comprising: A Butterfly Catcher, Woman at the opera, Billiard Player, a boy presenting flowers to his Granny, A Beer Drinker, A boy Stealing Apples, The Angler, The Latchkey and the Arrest of the Turk, each with a rhyme printed opposite, finger-soiling and some light offsetting from rusty rivets but colours still bright; publisher's illustrated, paper-covered boards, cloth spine rebacked, dust-soiled, rubbed and chipped on extremities but all considered very good. Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925), entered the publishing business in 1866 as a writer and illustrator for the satirical magazine Flying Pages, which was similar to Punch. In the 1880s he started his long running periodical, The Meggendorfer Pages.His first moving picture book was Living Pictures (1878), which he originally created for his son Adolf as a Christmas present. He went on to illustrate and engineer as many as two hundred movable…
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ZUM ZEITVERTREIB
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MEGGENDORFER. MEGGENDORFER,LOTHAR. ZUM ZEITVERTREIB. Munchen: Braun & Schneider, no date, circa 1890. 9 1/2 x 12 3/4", cloth backed pictorial boards, new spine nearly identical to original, some finger soil from usage otherwise in VG+ condition and a bright copy, fully operational. Sechte auflage. This is a fabulous moveable plate book with 8 intricate and humorous moveable pages including: The Naturalist catching a Butterfly, Woman at the opera, Billiard Player, A Young Boy giving Flowers to an Older Woman, The Beer Drinker, The boy Stealing Apples, The Angler, The Latchkey and the Arrest of the Turk. Haining:Moveable Books reproduces several of the plates from the English language edition called Always Jolly.
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Zum Zeitvertreib für brave Knaben & Mädchen Ein Ziehbilderbuch (a moving picture book).
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