Meggendorfer, Lothar (1847-1925).. Nah und Fern. Ein Tiebilderbuch zum Ziehen.. Munich: Braun and Schneider. [1887]. First. 4to (13 x 9 inches; 320 x 235mm). [18] pp. with 8 movable pochoir plates. Cloth-backed pochoir boards, spine attractively rebacked in brown cloth with interior page support strengthening. Ownership inscription dated 1887 to inside front board, general toning and light scattered staining throughout, all movables complete and working, with all parts of the book original and with no facsimiles, including the often replaced pulls. Covers are in good, stable condition with some creases and edgewear. Sendak, Caldecott & Co. , p 57; Krahé, Spielwelt 100 and p. 141.
A fine collection of animated and sometimes elaborate pictures of animals near and far, with verses by Franz Bonn. The truly wonderful and complex moveable plates include a lion, women feeding many swans, a giraffe, a parot on a swing, a man with his cow, two (racially stereotyped) black boys on a camel and a likewise cringe-inducing one of a black man and elephant, and a man with two pigs. Maurice Sendak caled ''Der Papagei'' (The Parrot) ''perhaps one of the most spectacular of all Meggendorfers'' and ''Die Schäwne'' (The Swan) ''one of the loveliest portraits in the Meggendorfer gallery.'' "Meggendorfer […] derives the most appealing motifs for his drawings from the emotionally genuine relationship between humans and animals. In them, not only external movements are triggered, but at the same time inner impulses are also revealed." (Krahé)
Meggendorfer, Lothar (1847-1925).. Nah und Fern. Ein Tiebilderbuch zum Ziehen.. Munich: Braun and Schneider. [1887]. First. 4to (13 x 9 inches; 320 x 235mm). [18] pp. with 8 movable pochoir plates. Cloth-backed pochoir boards, spine attractively rebacked in brown cloth with interior page support strengthening. Ownership inscription dated 1887 to inside front board, general toning and light scattered staining throughout, all movables complete and working, with all parts of the book original and with no facsimiles, including the often replaced pulls. Covers are in good, stable condition with some creases and edgewear. Sendak, Caldecott & Co. , p 57; Krahé, Spielwelt 100 and p. 141.
A fine collection of animated and sometimes elaborate pictures of animals near and far, with verses by Franz Bonn. The truly wonderful and complex moveable plates include a lion, women feeding many swans, a giraffe, a parot on a swing, a man with his cow, two (racially stereotyped) black boys on a camel and a likewise cringe-inducing one of a black man and elephant, and a man with two pigs. Maurice Sendak caled ''Der Papagei'' (The Parrot) ''perhaps one of the most spectacular of all Meggendorfers'' and ''Die Schäwne'' (The Swan) ''one of the loveliest portraits in the Meggendorfer gallery.'' "Meggendorfer […] derives the most appealing motifs for his drawings from the emotionally genuine relationship between humans and animals. In them, not only external movements are triggered, but at the same time inner impulses are also revealed." (Krahé)