At the Fair

Pop-Up Book.   Three double-page colour pop-ups, pictorial title, black-and-white illustrations Dean & Son, Limited, Dean’s Magic Surprise Series,  no date    Large 8vo Quarter cloth, pictorial boards Binding with some soiling and minor wear, contents with some browning, but a very good copy, the pop-ups intact  Extremely rare to the point that this may be the only known extant physical copy, apparently only held in microfiche form by libraries worldwide. Even Opie had only a microfiche and all other institutional copies are taken from that. A note in the Bodleian Library’s cataloguing states that the date of publication is not before 1873 “suggested by P.A.H. Brown’s London publishers and printers c.1800-1870”. This is most likely 1890s.  

Price: £1500