The Three Bears; Patent No. 2444, No. 606

London, Paris and New York. Printed in Germany: Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1882. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Cloth spine. Pictorial paper pasted onto front board. Very Good Plus. N.d., with inscription dated 1882. 12mo. 18 by 14 cm. Unpaginated, 16 pp. With six pop-ups -- here you pull at an upper flap to a side to line it up just so to create a touch of depth and three dimensionality to the chromolithgraphic illustration. Part of Combined Expanding Toy and Painting Book Series. Raphael Tuck published several different versions of this children's classic, but this is the only pop-up version, and it is clearly scarce, with only one institutional copy located on OCLC First Search, this being at the American Antiquarian Society. No other copies of title with these pop-ups available in commerce as of the date of this description. Light wear and light soiling.