12th Sep, 2018 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
  Lot 83
 

83

Moveable Book Weatherly, Frederick Edward (ed.) Peeps Into Fairyland. Ernest Nister, [c.1895]....

Moveable Book Weatherly, Frederick Edward (ed.) Peeps Into Fairyland. Ernest Nister, [c.1895]. Oblong 4to, org. cloth-backed pictorial-paper covered boards; 6 full-page, coloured, fold-out stand-up scenes, one to illustrate each story. A collection of fairy stories by E. Nesbit and others with stand-up illustrations created by German publisher and paper engineer Ernest Nister. Whilst Nister was not the first to produce pop-up books, his innovation was the addition of fabric tags which automatically pulled the scene up - before this the scene had to be manipulated up by the reader. The illustrations are in remarkably good condition with no obvious loss or restoration (although the head of the wand in the ''Fairy Lake'' is loose). The Giant, in ''Jack Running Away from the Giant'' is detached from the page but the Giant is still present and attached to the illustration. An delightful example of a charming book.

Sold for £300
Estimated at £200 - £300


 

Boards rubbed and scuffed, some slight marking etc internally to text, margins dusty, but a very good copy, with uncommonly nice illlustrations.

 


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Auction: Books, Maps & Ephemera, 12th Sep, 2018

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