Dean & Son Home Pantomime Toy Books with Five Set Scenes & Nine Trick Changes: Whittington and His Cat - Movable book in excellent complete condition
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Dean & Son Home Pantomime Toy Books with Five Set Scenes & Nine Trick Changes: Whittington and His Cat
London, Dean & Sons 160A Fleet Street Circa 1879
9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25 × 18.5 cm)
The books in this Dean's series "Home Pantomime Toy Books" had paper soft covers which caused very few to survive.
Illustrated with
26 pages, varying in size, of beautiful chromo-lithographed illustrations, makes a
little book within a book
Condition: Complete without missing pieces. Still well bound, all original with no repairs. Some wear to soft covers - see photos.
All in all, amazing condition for this rare soft cover Dean.
Questions? Email us at [email protected]
Collector's Corner:
Dean & Son's Home Pantomime Toy Books: (The illustrations are grouped in the center of the book and because of their different lengths – they form simple transformations of the scene) Note: These books were famously pirated by Mcloughlin for his pantomime series. There were 8 titles. These had cardboard covers unlike the book here.
Aladdin (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #1
Sleeping Beauty (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #2
Cinderella (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #3
Puss In Boots (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #4
Blue Beard (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #5
Whittington and his cat (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #6 - 1880
Ali-Baba and the 40 thieves : with five set scenes & nine trick changes (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #7 – 1880
Beauty and the Beast: with five set scenes & nine trick changes (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #8 – 1880
International versions (made in partnership with Dean or pirated) of these books include the Dutch books of the same titles published by I. de Haan from Haarlem and the series was known as Nederlandsche prentenboeken voor de jeugd - Tooverboek
Operating from the same town, I. de Haan, worked closely with the multinational printing firm
Emrik & Binger who printed the dutch editions of this book series. I. de Haan operated from 1875 until 1900.
also sold: Dean & Son Home Pantomime Toy Books with Five Set Scenes & Nine Trick Changes: Ali-Baba & the 40 Thieves
London, Dean & Sons 160A Fleet Street Circa 1878
9 13/16 × 7 5/16 in. (25 × 18.5 cm)
8, [2] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. col. ill. ; 6240 x 4160
Illustrated by Richard André, cf. Blom, cited below.
The books in this Dean's series "Home Pantomime Toy Books" had paper soft covers which caused very few to survive.
Illustrated with 26 pages, varying in size, of beautiful chromo-lithographed illustrations, makes a little book within a book
The tale told in verse with folding colour plates of the action of the pantomime and harlequinade with some plates having short tabs for the tricks.
Trade and publisher's advertisments on final two pages and recto and verso of back cover.
Condition: A good copy of a scarce title. . Complete without missing pieces. Still well bound, all original with no repairs. Some wear to soft covers - see photos.
Minor marginal foxing. Some minor abrasion and small losses to the surface of a few illustrations, not materially affecting the images
Upper quarter of the inner booklet pulling away at the gutter. long ago threading a binding
Questions? Email us at [email protected]
Collector's Corner:
Dean & Son's Home Pantomime Toy Books: (The illustrations are grouped in the center of the book and because of their different lengths – they form simple transformations of the scene) Note: These books were famously pirated by Mcloughlin for his pantomime series. There were 8 titles. These had cardboard covers unlike the book here.
Aladdin (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #1
Sleeping Beauty (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #2
Cinderella (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #3
Puss In Boots (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #4
Blue Beard (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #5
Whittington and his cat (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #6 - 1880
Ali-Baba and the 40 thieves : with five set scenes & nine trick changes (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #7 – 1880
Beauty and the Beast: with five set scenes & nine trick changes (Home Pantomime Toy Books) #8 – 1880
Dean & Son advertisement, The Christmas Bookseller, 1880, p. 250.
International versions (made in partnership with Dean or pirated) of these books include the Dutch books of the same titles published by I. de Haan from Haarlem and the series was known as Nederlandsche prentenboeken voor de jeugd - Tooverboek
Operating from the same town, I. de Haan, worked closely with the multinational printing firm
Emrik & Binger who printed the dutch editions of this book series. I. de Haan operated from 1875 until 1900.
Refernces:
Illustrated by Richard André, attribution following Thomas E. Blom, The Secret Lives of Richard André (1834–1907).
Product Code: D-27
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