72/1059 Movable books pop up and shape books Le Livre d'images parlantes pour amuser les chers bébés 72/1059 [Movable books, pop-up and shape books]. Le Livre d'images parlantes pour amuser les chers bébés. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1880), 8 chromolithogr. plates w. accompanying textp., next to each page is a carved plastic knob that, when gently pulled, causes the depicted animal's sound to be reproduced (bird, cow etc.) (nine pulls in all), orig. cl. w. chromolithogr. plate mounted on frontcover, carved and gilt painted wooden edges (which form the fake bookblock), folio. - In working order. Upper hinge partly broken; sl. foxed; one knob replaced by wooden knob. Joints and lower outer boardedge strengthened w. red tape; ill. on frontcover lacks lower right corner; sl. worn along extremities. = Rare. Haining p.136f: "the piece de resistance of any collection of moveables."
72/1059 Movable books pop up and shape books Le Livre d'images parlantes pour amuser les chers bébés 72/1059 [Movable books, pop-up and shape books]. Le Livre d'images parlantes pour amuser les chers bébés. N.pl., n.publ., n.d. (±1880), 8 chromolithogr. plates w. accompanying textp., next to each page is a carved plastic knob that, when gently pulled, causes the depicted animal's sound to be reproduced (bird, cow etc.) (nine pulls in all), orig. cl. w. chromolithogr. plate mounted on frontcover, carved and gilt painted wooden edges (which form the fake bookblock), folio. - In working order. Upper hinge partly broken; sl. foxed; one knob replaced by wooden knob. Joints and lower outer boardedge strengthened w. red tape; ill. on frontcover lacks lower right corner; sl. worn along extremities. = Rare. Haining p.136f: "the piece de resistance of any collection of moveables."
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