MEGGENDORFER, Lothar (1847-1925). From Far and Near. A moveable Toybook. London: H. Grevel & Co., [c.1890]. 2° (329 x 237mm). 8 hand-coloured plates with moving parts operated by tabs (some light spotting and staining). Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards (some light staining). Provenance: Leonard Holland (early signature on front pastedown). "Now children dear, be good, I pray/And do not hurt this book so gay,/But move it gently, not too fast,/And then the longer it will last" (from the Preface).

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MEGGENDORFER, Lothar (1847-1925). From Far and Near. A moveable Toybook. London: H. Grevel & Co., [c.1890]. 2° (329 x 237mm). 8 hand-coloured plates with moving parts operated by tabs (some light spotting and staining). Original cloth-backed coloured pictorial boards (some light staining). Provenance: Leonard Holland (early signature on front pastedown). "Now children dear, be good, I pray/And do not hurt this book so gay,/But move it gently, not too fast,/And then the longer it will last" (from the Preface).

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