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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

[Salesman's sample book / Lothar Meggendorfer].

Accession number
PML 86011
Creator
Meggendorfer, Lothar
Published
[Esslingen : Schreiber, ca. 1892].
Credit line
Purchase on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1991.
Notes
Title and date from bookseller's catalog.
Dummy comprising four movable book illustrations, three from "Schau mich an!", one unidentified, backed by repeated texts from "Das Trio" (1 and 2) and "Der Vorposten" (3 and 4).
Probably assembled by the publisher in order to show the working of the movable illustrations. Operated by a tab and a series of inter-connecting cardboard levers hidden between the illustrated leaf and the sheet with text pasted behind it.
"No. 105"--stamp on upper cover.
Description
[8] unopened leaves : ill. (chromolithographs) ; 26 x 36.5 cm
Binding
Contemporary 1/4 red cloth, light blue paper boards, a pictorial chromolithograph label without a title attached to upper board; in a modern blue cloth box with red leather spine title.
Classification
Department