Surprise Pictures from Fairy Land
- London: Ernest Nister, 1907
London: Ernest Nister, 1907. Stories that Transform Before Your Eyes - Ernest Nister's Magical Pull-Tab Fairy Tales
[TRANSFORMATION BOOK]. BINGHAM, Clifton. Surprise Pictures from Fairy Land. Verses by Clifton Bingham. London: Ernest Nister, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, [1907] (code no. 1861).
Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 248 x 185 mm.). [16] pp. With six movable tab-operated color plates featuring triple-action transformations.
Original glazed pictorial boards with gray cloth backstrip, pale blue patterned endpapers. Inner hinges professionally strengthened; minimal rubbing to corners and board edges. A remarkably well-preserved example of this scarce and highly engaging movable book.
Clifton Bingham's charming verse retellings of beloved fairy tales and nursery rhymes are accompanied by black-and-white line illustrations throughout the text and six vividly printed color transformation plates. Each movable illustration is operated by a pull tab and reveals a sequence of three scenes that follow the narrative progression of the story.
Among the highlights is the episode from Little Red Riding Hood, where the initial scene shows the young girl being prepared by her mother for her journey. The first pull of the tab reveals her encounter with the Wolf in the forest, while the second transformation dramatically changes the image to the familiar scene of the Wolf disguised in her grandmother's bed. Other subjects include Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo-Peep, Hey-Diddle-Diddle, Mother Hubbard, and The Three Bears.
These intricate mechanical plates - printed in Bavaria using delicate layered paper mechanisms - are characteristic of the celebrated production methods employed by Ernest Nister. Because the thin paper components and pull-tabs were easily damaged through use, surviving copies with intact and functioning movables are increasingly uncommon.
All movable plates in the present copy have been professionally re-tabbed and remain in perfect working order. The contents are clean and fresh, making this an exceptional example of an early twentieth-century transformation book.
[TRANSFORMATION BOOK]. BINGHAM, Clifton. Surprise Pictures from Fairy Land. Verses by Clifton Bingham. London: Ernest Nister, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, [1907] (code no. 1861).
Quarto (9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches; 248 x 185 mm.). [16] pp. With six movable tab-operated color plates featuring triple-action transformations.
Original glazed pictorial boards with gray cloth backstrip, pale blue patterned endpapers. Inner hinges professionally strengthened; minimal rubbing to corners and board edges. A remarkably well-preserved example of this scarce and highly engaging movable book.
Clifton Bingham's charming verse retellings of beloved fairy tales and nursery rhymes are accompanied by black-and-white line illustrations throughout the text and six vividly printed color transformation plates. Each movable illustration is operated by a pull tab and reveals a sequence of three scenes that follow the narrative progression of the story.
Among the highlights is the episode from Little Red Riding Hood, where the initial scene shows the young girl being prepared by her mother for her journey. The first pull of the tab reveals her encounter with the Wolf in the forest, while the second transformation dramatically changes the image to the familiar scene of the Wolf disguised in her grandmother's bed. Other subjects include Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo-Peep, Hey-Diddle-Diddle, Mother Hubbard, and The Three Bears.
These intricate mechanical plates - printed in Bavaria using delicate layered paper mechanisms - are characteristic of the celebrated production methods employed by Ernest Nister. Because the thin paper components and pull-tabs were easily damaged through use, surviving copies with intact and functioning movables are increasingly uncommon.
All movable plates in the present copy have been professionally re-tabbed and remain in perfect working order. The contents are clean and fresh, making this an exceptional example of an early twentieth-century transformation book.
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Surprise Pictures from Fairy Land
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London: Ernest Nister, 1907