Fünfhundert Jahre Buchdruckerkunst, 1440-1940
Subtitle: über hundert Jahre Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt a.M., gegründet 1837
Contributors: Bauersche Giesserei
Publisher: [Bauersche Giesserei]
Published: 1940
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main]
Language: ger
Subjects: Anniversaries; Printing; Pictorial works; Toy and movable books; Specimens; History; Origin and antecedents; Peep shows; Bauersche Giesserei; Mainzer Dom
Other titles: 500 Jahre Buchdruckerkunst, 1440-1940.
Notes: Folding diorama to be viewed as a peep show of a fifteenth-century printing shop.

Cover title.

Signed by the illustrator: F. Kredel.

Tunnel peepshow with 4 panels attached on the horizontal edges with accordion-folded strips pasted down on front and rear illustrated boards. Consists of 6 illustrations depicting Gutenberg's print shop with view of the Mainzer Dom through the window in the final panel, signed F. Kredel.

Rare Book copy: With original mailing envelope and colophon / instruction sheet.