![["FINGER" BOOK.] Ambigu magique ou tableaux changeans à l'usage de ceux qui n'ont pas la Berluë. Paris: Jacques Chereau, 1776.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2006/NYR/2006_NYR_01769_0403_000(122641).jpg?w=1)
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["FINGER" BOOK.] Ambigu magique ou tableaux changeans à l'usage de ceux qui n'ont pas la Berluë. Paris: Jacques Chereau, 1776.
8o (155 x 112 mm). Title, leaf describing the usage of the book and 2 folding calendar leaves. 168 hand-colored engraved plates. (Some wear and soiling, as expected.) Original green wrappers, printed paper spine label (edgewear). Provenance: purchased from Chiswick Book Shop, 16 January 1961.
PRINTING MAGIC: A 'FINGER BOOK' DISPLAYING SIX DISCRETE SERIES OF VIEWS. Small notches are cut into the fore-margins so that when the viewer's hand is placed on the first in a series and fans the book, the pages "magically" flip to the next in that series. The book may be turned upside down to see different series, of which there are in all seven: playing cards, womens' costume, flowers, priests, abbés, military uniforms and harlequins. The book is composed of six 32-page gatherings with the outer and inner sheets left blank. The pages are then printed as follows: 1 blank, 2/3 playing cards, 4/5 women's costume, 6/7 flowers, 8/9 military costume [upside down], 10/11 abbé's [upside down], 12/13 priests [upside down], 14/15 harlequins [upside down], 16 blank; the same sequence is repeated for the remaining half of the gathering. Cohen-de Ricci does not record this work, and no copies are located either at auction in American Book Prices Current or in libraries on RLG.
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PRINTING MAGIC: A 'FINGER BOOK' DISPLAYING SIX DISCRETE SERIES OF VIEWS. Small notches are cut into the fore-margins so that when the viewer's hand is placed on the first in a series and fans the book, the pages "magically" flip to the next in that series. The book may be turned upside down to see different series, of which there are in all seven: playing cards, womens' costume, flowers, priests, abbés, military uniforms and harlequins. The book is composed of six 32-page gatherings with the outer and inner sheets left blank. The pages are then printed as follows: 1 blank, 2/3 playing cards, 4/5 women's costume, 6/7 flowers, 8/9 military costume [upside down], 10/11 abbé's [upside down], 12/13 priests [upside down], 14/15 harlequins [upside down], 16 blank; the same sequence is repeated for the remaining half of the gathering. Cohen-de Ricci does not record this work, and no copies are located either at auction in American Book Prices Current or in libraries on RLG.