Le Phenakisticope

$4,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

11 of 12? hand colored discs lacking number 6 , paper board disk with eye slits, and wooden framed mirror. Without the wooden handle with brass fitting. Original patterned paper box with lithographed onlay on upper cover. Box worn and soiled. Item #352351 Among the earliest animation devices, it was first introduced in 1832 by Joseph Plateau and marketed in Paris by Giroux as early as 1833 as a boxed set like the present. A wooden handle with

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