Square octavo. Of impressive construction, this multi-directional accordion unfolds into fourteen scenes of a 19th-century city park, as it was contemporaneously imagined by Meggendorfer. Certainly the illustrations bear a striking resemblance to the activity of New York's Central Park, a comparison naturally evoked by the publisher responsible for the reproduction, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The front pastedown and rear cover both provide instructions for the book's possible arrangements, so that the scenes might play out in a linear fashion, can be layered into a diorama of cinematic depth, or some intermediate staging using the two. Bound in pictorial covers with hinges of brown cloth. Some rubs to edges and corners, else near fine.