Condition: original decorative thin hardback binding Good, some wear, mostly edges/corners. . Contents fair/good, with some paper ageing and some of the movable illustrations in need of restoration/refitting, all looks complete. 8 hand coloured triple sided illustrated pages (page/movable parts/thin page), with pulls either side or up/down, around the pull, there is some tearing as normal as the pull is thicker/stronger than the illustrated paper, a couple with tear to base, one with small corner loss. Not dated but institutions dates are between 1857 to1865. (Bodleian states not after 1858 Delaware states c1860) One wrongly dates it as c1900 but checked a couple of advertised books on rear cover and were 1856 -1860. No inscriptions, black on orange endpapers advertising Dean & Son children s books including interesting and instructive books (& coloured sixpenny books to back cover). The 8 triple thick pages of movable images with text underneath, each of the bird/animal scenes with a pull sideways or up/down that the wings/head etc moves. This book unlike most of our children s books, there has been a couple of pages that have had some glueing of the triple pages. Dean and Son was the first publisher to produce movable books on a large scale. their toy books took over the market from the 1840s to the 1880s. Dean opened studios in London with teams of artists who worked to design and craft all kinds of new and complex movables. Around 1856, Dean released a series of movable books. The fragility of these Victorian semi-movable book makes them almost impossible to find in good original condition. So this is a fair/good mostly un-restored example of this hard to find movable work. Please see our other children s books including movable & some very rare tiles. Size: 18 x 25cm Approx.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Dean s Moveable Cock Robin (movable )

Publisher

Dean and Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, London

Publication Date

1858

Binding

Decorative Hard Back

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Good

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None. I have a number of unique and/or rare books on ABE at all times, my ABE books are kept separately. Very rarely if ever taken to book fairs. (99% of books, taken to fairs are not listed or on ABE & not catalogued, they are just boxed and no details are available.)I also sell at The Ephemera Society Fairs in London & The London Photograph Fairs, but not books. See my rare/unique books.

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Malcolm Books
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