Beschreibung:

Original pictorial boards, coloured endpapers, numerous (full page) colour illustrations (mostly photographs), oblong (circa 25x27.5cm). 208p.

Bemerkung:

Gut The book features large, magnificent illustrations of early wooden and papier-mâché toys, comparing them with previously unpublished illustrations from early pattern books of the Biedermeier period. It features pull-along toys, bellows toys, crank toys, boxed toys depicting scenes from urban and rural life, soldiers, tableware, furniture, and papier-mâché dolls. Using contemporary sources, the reader also learns about the manufacturing regions, production, pattern books, publishers, and worldwide exports of the period.