Author: Bilder-Zauberei
Title: [BLOW BOOK / MAGIC PICTURE BOOK].
Description: , c.[1870]. 12mo. 14 x 9.7cm. Instructions in Spanish, Italian and Hungarian to rear pastedown. No title or publishing details as usual, several ills. with light crayoning, lacking upper wrapp. but supplied in colour photocopy, some browning, light browning, original chipped lower wrapp. present. ¶ Magician's blow book. These books were so designed that a blow of air by the conjuror and a swift riffling through the pages produced a different set of images or indeed showed a seemingly blank volume - depending on which way up the book was held and from which notch on the fore-edge it was thumbed. Seven topics each with 8 plates each, including Animals, Fairy Stories, Nursery Rhymes, Trades?men, all colour printed or chromolitho; alphabet, music and silhouettes in black and white. See Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak, Devices of Wonder, pp.252-255.

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