Folio. (7)ff. A collection of comic animal stories illustrated with six "pull-the-tab" movable chromolithographs designed by Lothar Meggendorfer. One of Meggendorfer's innovations was to make multiple movements possible within a scene, using an internal mechanism of rivets and levers. In one scene, a monkey embraces a crying infant, shaking a rattle with one hand and offering a doll with its foot. In another, a fox runs away with geese under each arm, nodding its head as one goose opens and closes its beak in protest and the other struggles to be freed. Each illustration has a title and caption narrating the scene. The text of the stories appears on the facing verso of the pages, illustrated with black-and-white vignettes. The five stories included are "Un Vaniteux," "Farce de Singe," "Les Deux Chasseurs," "En Famille," and "Lièvres et Choux." Unlike most other Meggendorfer movables, this title does not appear to have a German antecedent: the only other edition of this work is Artistic Pussy and Her Moving Pictures, published in Chicago. The French edition contains an additional black-and-white illustrated illustration not in the American version. Capendu was well known as a French publisher of movable books and paper toys for children. Slightest rubbing to extremities, else a remarkably fine, bright copy in pictorial boards. A rare Meggendorfer title that infrequently appears on the market, in perfect working order.