$441
Nine Chromolithograph Proof Sheets for Meggendorfer Mechanical Picture Books, late 19th century, consisting of the covers for the books Comic Actors, A New Movable Toybooks (London 1892), Merry Company, A Funny Movable Toybook (London 1891), Humorous Picture Book (London 1893), The Jolly Uncle (London, c. 1898), Veslyi Dyadenka (Moscow 1899), Le Paradis Terrestre (Paris 1895), Lothar Meggendorfer's Lustiger Kinder-Kalender (Esslingen 1890), Du Matin au Soir (Esslingen 1888), and Du Matin au Soir (Paris 1888); with an additional four humorous chromolithograph proof sheets from Da Musst Du Lachen, 1897. Provenance: From the Archive of the publisher J.F. Schreiber, Esslingen.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2005-05-03
