LOT 3063
17th March 2020
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LOT 3063
CHILDRENS BOOK. The Speaking Picture Book, a New Picture Book with Characteristic Voices. [Nuremburg: H. Grevel & Co., circa 1880.] Folio (299 x 216mm.) 8 chromolithographed plates with accompanying text on the facing page and an arrow in the margins indicating the ivory finial that, when pulled, produces the appropriate animal noise, all bound on top of the miniature bellows contained in the box below. (Browning, minor spotting to the plates.) Original red cloth with decorative black borders surrounding a mounted colour plate to the upper cover, blind-stamped design to the lower cover, gold painted fore-edge (lacking one ivory finial, crease to spine panel, some rubbing to fore-edge). Note: the noises that are reproduced are that of a cock, donkey, lamb, bird, cow, cuckoo, goat and two for children's voices. [Haining, 136: 'the pièce de résistance of any collection of moveables'].
Hammer price: £200
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