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Transformation picture book - Meggendorfer, Lothar. Transformation pictures. First presentation. With title vignette, text illustrations and 6 chromolithographed plates with pull-out mechanism. Esslingen, J. F. Schreiber, 1894. 35.3 x 25.5 cm. Original half cloth with color illustrated front cover (somewhat rubbed, handwritten title on spine, spine with later staples). Rare first edition with witty and imaginative transformation pictures. - Krahé, Spielwelt 125 - Ries 95 - Stuck-Villa I, 438 - Contains: Das Gigerl auf dem Eise, Der Neger in der Fremde, Der Maler oder das unterbrochene Studium, Der widerspenstige Esel, Die Fischerin and Der dumme August oder im Cirkus. - By shifting the four horizontal strips vertically, a completely new picture appears. "With his metamorphosis pictures, Meggendorfer once again shows us all kinds of human weaknesses in the most comical way in blind pictures." (Laub, SMCA p. 243). - Partly slightly stained and somewhat worn, the upper lamella of the fisherwoman is missing, the lower one of the clown. VAT: *
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Transformation picture book - Meggendorfer, Lothar. Transformation pictures. First presentation. With title vignette, text illustrations and 6 chromolithographed plates with pull-out mechanism. Esslingen, J. F. Schreiber, 1894. 35.3 x 25.5 cm. Original half cloth with color illustrated front cover (somewhat rubbed, handwritten title on spine, spine with later staples). Rare first edition with witty and imaginative transformation pictures. - Krahé, Spielwelt 125 - Ries 95 - Stuck-Villa I, 438 - Contains: Das Gigerl auf dem Eise, Der Neger in der Fremde, Der Maler oder das unterbrochene Studium, Der widerspenstige Esel, Die Fischerin and Der dumme August oder im Cirkus. - By shifting the four horizontal strips vertically, a completely new picture appears. "With his metamorphosis pictures, Meggendorfer once again shows us all kinds of human weaknesses in the most comical way in blind pictures." (Laub, SMCA p. 243). - Partly slightly stained and somewhat worn, the upper lamella of the fisherwoman is missing, the lower one of the clown. VAT: *
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