LOT 3041
4th December 2024
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LOT 3041
MOVABLE BOOK. – Lothar MEGGENDORFER. Look at Me! A New Movable Toybook. London: H. Grevel & Co., [1891.] Oblong folio (254 x 342mm.) 8 full-page colour movable illustrations with tabs and text leaf to each. (Browned to margins, two tabs replaced and one repaired, small marginal repair to tear to first illustration and last has a small movable piece missing.) Original red cloth-backed boards with mounted colour illustration (lightly bumped, browned). Note: seven of the eight movables are in full working order. Considered to be the greatest paper engineer and maker of movable books, the Movable Book Society awards a pop-up book prize every year in his name. Maurice Sendak has written of Meggendorfer, that he ‘turned the mechanical toy book into a work of art. He was the supreme master of animation, every gesture, both animal and human, coarse and subtle, amazingly was conveyed via the primitive but, in his hands, versatile technique of movable paper parts’.
Estimate: £400 – £600
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