A visit to Fairyland with Humpty Dumpty.
London: Ernest Nister; New York: E. P. Dutton, [1898].
STUNNING POP-UP BOOK.. This edition is famous for its pop-up scenes from Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss In Boots, Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe and Beauty & The Beast.
First edition, landscape 4to., (26.5 x 32 cm), engraved title-page, pen and ink illustrations by E. Stuart Hardy and six colour pop-ups, original pictorial boards, small bookplate to upper pastedown, gentle age-toning to text, some rubbing to extremities of boards, corners bumped otherwise an exceptional copy.
First edition, landscape 4to., (26.5 x 32 cm), engraved title-page, pen and ink illustrations by E. Stuart Hardy and six colour pop-ups, original pictorial boards, small bookplate to upper pastedown, gentle age-toning to text, some rubbing to extremities of boards, corners bumped otherwise an exceptional copy.
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