PEEPS INTO FAIRY LAND : A Panorama Picture Book of Fairy Stories

by F. E. Weatherly, Eveline Stuart Hardy, Edith Nesbit

$1,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

London / New York: Ernest Nister / E.P. Durron & Co, 1896 . First edition of this toy theater-like pop-up book, in which 3D scenes of the land of the Fae are illustrated within pop-up chromolithographic frames. Very good. Item #56203 Children's book publisher Nister made a specialty of movable and toy books like this one, a famous example in its series of stand-up books. These used paper and linen mechanisms to pull

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