$286
Estimate: $300 - $500
Auction: June 25 at 11:00 AM ET
Group of 2 Pantomime Toy Books
New York: McLoughlin Bro's, (ca. 1880s). 4to. Includes Puss in Boots and Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp. Each illustrated with a double-page chromolithographed plate with functioning transformation flap. Publisher's pictorial boards, spines and extremities worn and rubbed; text block starting in Aladdin, with double-page plate loose, flaps just holding; scattered foxing in each volume; stain on final leaf of Aladdin.
A charming set of two Pantomime Toy Books, each with a double-page chromolithograph of a theater stage, with movable flaps transforming the stage-scene.