$1,230
Dean's New Scenic Books No. 3 Cinderella , Movable Pop-up Book. London: Dean & Son, [n.d., circa 1866] Octavo, title from front board, eight leaves, each with a pop-up scene, colorful illustrated front board, cloth spine, back board with a publisher's advertisement printed on blue paper with the headline, "New and Amusing Books for the Young," blue endleaves with printed advertisements, three compartments per page, touting twelve different publication series; contemporary book tickets from Librairie Visconti in Nice, France, pasted at foot of front cover (partially torn away) and inside front board; advertisement on back board torn with loss; sewing structure perished, tear with loss along gutter of first leaf, silk ribbons broken and fragmentary, some functional, or partially so, a good candidate for conservation, no pre-existing repairs, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 in. The publication date is inferred from a small code on the ad on the verso of the back board. Other copies in Worldcat are dated in the same range, with different advertisements.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2015-05-27
