Marie de Bosquérard; Lothar Meggendorfer (illus.)
Joies Enfantines, 1891
Paris: Nouvelle Librairie de la Jeunesse
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Tall quarto. (9)ff. With eight full-color plates featuring movable elements by Meggendorfer. These pull-tab marvels of paper engineering accompany a series of verses by Marie de Bosquérard that describe various...
Tall quarto. (9)ff. With eight full-color plates featuring movable elements by Meggendorfer. These pull-tab marvels of paper engineering accompany a series of verses by Marie de Bosquérard that describe various events in the very full lives of young Paul and his sister Gilberte, who are visiting their grandmother. The first movable shows Paul holding a bottle of champagne aloft, while his sister carries a brightly decorated cake; when the tab is pulled, Paul lowers the bottle, but Gilberte hoists the cake to her mouth, and her tongue emerges to take a lick of the tasty treat. From there, we head to diverse destinations: we visit a carnival; we meet Uncle Gaspard, whose cello playing summons his cat from hiding; and we take a trip to Cairo and watch Abdel-sudi-cadi struggle with his donkey. The final movable, perhaps one of Meggendorfer's cleverest conceits, shows grandmother's housekeeper cleaning her large gilt-framed mirror while grandmother observes. The "reflection" is created by his use of four figures: two with their backs facing the viewer, and two more underneath a sheet of acetate; Jeanette's wiping action therefore involves both figures moving the exact same way. Published in Germany as Gemischte Gesellschaft, with different text. Internally bright and clean, with all movables unrestored and functioning properly. Pictorial cloth-backed boards show slight soiling and rubbing to corners. Fine, overall. (See Wegehaupt IV, 1410).
