2 folded sheets ([4] p., with 8 turn-up flaps) : chiefly col. ill. ; 19 x 27 cm. folded to 19 x 8 cm. (8vo)
Type:
Pictorial works
Early works to 1800
Juvenile poetry
Specimens
Date:
1775
1795
Between 1775 and 1795?]
Notes:
"A harlequinade (known also as a metamorphoses, flap-book or turn-up book): composed of two single engraved sheets. The first sheet is folded perpendicularly into four sections. A second sheet is cut in half and hinged at the top and bottom edges of the first so that each flap could be lifted separately. The sheets are folded into four, like an accordion, and then roughly stitched with a paper cover (see: Shefrin, 1980). A verse on each section of the flap tells a simple story usually concluding with instructions to turn a flap to continue. When the flap is turned either up or down the viewer sees that half of the new picture fits onto the half of the un-raised flap, so the act of lifting one flap after another creates a surprise unfolding of the story."--Description taken from an Oxford University Library online catalog record for another work in this same genre.
