MOVABLE BOOK. – Lothar MEGGENDORFER. Lutiges Automaten Theater. Stuttgart: J.F. Schreiber, [circa 1890.] First German edition, folio (349 x 257mm.) 8 chromolithograph plates with movable parts operated by card tabs, ‘Preface’, text leaves opposite plates, 1p. publisher’s advertisements verso last plate. (Browning, some spotting to text leaves, first and last plate loosening, one tab replaced.) Original red cloth-backed pictorial boards (browned, spine ends rubbed). Note: all parts in original working order but for the mandolin player’s right hand. Lothar Meggendorfer is considered the most accomplished creator of movable books of the late 19th and early 20th century.