Lothar Meggendorfer
Zum Zeitvertreib, (c. 1890)
Munich: Braun & Schneider
Sixth edition.
419
$ 3,000.00
Further images
Quarto. (9)ff. Illustrated with eight complex color movable images, positioned opposite humorous lyrics. The scenes include 'Der Billardspieler,' 'Der Schmetterlilngsfanger,' and 'Der Apfeldieb.' The images are manipulated through tabs at...
Quarto. (9)ff. Illustrated with eight complex color movable images, positioned opposite humorous lyrics. The scenes include "Der Billardspieler," "Der Schmetterlilngsfanger," and "Der Apfeldieb." The images are manipulated through tabs at the bottom of each page. The tabs move multiple parts of the scene at once; arms flail, heads nod, and legs jolt at the movement. These movables are secured largely through metal rivets, which reinforce Meggendorfer's caricature-like styling of his characters. One scene, accompanied by verse titled "Die gesangene Turko" ("The Captured Turk") presents a stereotyped illustration of a Black man. Bound in cloth-backed pictorial boards. Exterior somewhat soiled with outer corners rubbed, minimal internal marks, else near fine. (Wegehaupt IV, 1447).
