product description
- Germany around 1894
- Verlag von J. F. Schreiber Esslingen, 2nd edition
- illustrated by Lothar Meggendorfer
- extremely rare drawing picture book
- First Introduction Morphing Pictures
- with title vignette, text illustrations and 6 chromolithographed plates
- two-layer draw mechanism
- with funny and imaginative metamorphosis pictures to the stories of the unruly donkey, stupid August, the fisherwoman, the negro in Cameroon and others
- a completely new image appears by vertically moving the four horizontal image strips
- 16 pages
- Material:
- Original cloth binding with front cover illustrated in colour
- Dimensions:
- 13.9 inch x 10 inch
- State:
- Drawing mechanisms all perfectly intact
- Endpaper with dealer's stamp
- Binding stained and light-stained
- Pull mechanisms partially inconspicuously restored, there image sections with small corner tears