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771 - Meggendorfer, L.

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€400

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Estimation

€400 - 600

Sale fees

27%

Meggendorfer, L. Only for Well-Behaved Children. A transformable picture book with 12 exquisite color prints. Esslingen and Munich, J.F. Schreiber (1896). Quarto. 8 leaves with 6 color lithographic plates featuring a pull-tab mechanism. Hardcover with modern cloth binding (worn and scuffed; back cover stained; front cover with crease). (Publisher’s No. 137). — Breitschwerdt Collection 131. HKJL IV, 612. Katzenheim, Meggendorfer 266. Krahé 110. Laub 198 (Reprint from 1980 without the sixth panel). Ries 714, 102 and p. 56. Stuck-Villa I, 434. Wegehaupt IV, 1437. - Pull-tab picture book. Pulling the strip creates a new image that is thematically linked to the previous one but stands in surprising, comical contrast to it. - Second image on the left panel is incomplete; interior pages are reinforced, somewhat browned and stained, with some small tears along the edges.

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Auction details

Auction 146 - Day 1
Wednesday, December 9
10:00 AM
Steubenstrasse, 36
75172 Pforzheim, Germany

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Kiefer +49 7 23 19 23 20 info@kiefer.de
On Drouot for 6 years avec More than 140,000 lots published

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