Apr 14, 2005 - Sale 2038

Sale 2038 - Lot 69

Unsold
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(POP-UP BOOKS.) Happy Families and Their Tales: A Volume of Pictures & Stories of Domestic Pets. 5 charming three-dimensional chromolithographed pop-up images of farm scenes. Oblong 4to, publisher's cloth-backed pictorial boards, edges rubbed; hinges cracked, inner corners and some figures in pop-ups creased, several supports reinforced or replaced, few gutters reinforced, light foxing to some backgrounds, heaviest on last; erased children's pencil marks on rear endpapers. Printed in Bavaria for Ernest Nister and E. P. Dutton. London and New York, circa 1890