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Grand Album D'Animaux Comiques (Big Book of Funny Animals)
Paris: A. Capendu, 1900. Item #05547
Comical Animals Having a Good Time
Six Wonderful Movable Plates
[MOVABLE BOOK]. REYNAUD, Adeline. Grand Album D'Animaux Comiques. (Big Book of Funny Animals) Texte de Mlle. Adeline Reynaud. Paris: A. Capendu, 1900.
Folio (14 x 9 1/2 inches; 356 x 242 mm.). Lithograph title-page (recto of page [2] and six full-page colored lever-operated moveable plates, each with text illustrations on verso. Text beneath each illustration.
Publisher's red cloth over color pictorial boards. Rear cover plain. A wonderful example.
The Movable Plates:
1. "En Automobile" (A Goat and a Cow, monsieurs Hautcol & Beugle, in the back seat of a car being driven by a lamb)
2. "La Boxe" (A dog and a cat, Job & Mistigris, in a boxing match)
3. "Le Patinage" (A Dog, Tartenpion, skating on ice)
4. "L'Equitation" (A Frog, Crapoto, Riding on a turtle)
5. "La Chasse" (Two rabbit hunter dogs, Finot & Roublard, standing in the field with their rifles)
6. "Le Ludge" Beofin & Bob, a dog and a monkey with their sledges in the snow.
Adeline Reynaud wrote several comic animal stories, including at least two movable books including Allo! Allo! Bostock. Grand Album d'Animaux Savants, Grand Album D'Animaux Comiques, and Jack l'incorrigible et son chien Puck.
Price: $2,750.00