Dean's new book of dissolving pictures
Contributors: American Antiquarian Society
Publisher: Dean & Son, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Toy and movable books; Specimens
Other titles: New book of dissolving pictures
Notes: Cover title.

Date of publication from Montanaro.

Includes six dissolving pictures, in which paper slats slide over others to create new scenes when the paper tabs are pulled.  The border on each picture is an ornate yellow stage with a raised, red curtain.  Four lines of verse with each illustration.

Publisher's advertisements on lavender endpapers at front and back, and p. [4] of cover, with the following headings: Little plays for little people, new and amusing books for the young, Deans' [sic] new series of amusing colored moveable books, novelties in children's books, and, list of Dean & Son's untearable cloth books.

Illustrations are hand-colored.

LC copy imperfect: none of the movable pictures are intact, all of the pieces appear to be present.

Montanaro, A.R.  Pop-up and movable books, p. 70

LC copy is the gift of the American Antiquarian Society, Aug. 24, 1939.  Inscribed: Lowell E. Blake, November 1862.
Table of contents: title: Fair, dark; title: War, peace; title: The ocean way, the iron way; title: Outside, inside; title: Danger, safety; title: Saturday night, Sunday morning.