Surprise Pictures from Fairy Land by Clifton Bingham (Nister) first edition 1907

London: Ernest Nister; New York: E.P. Dutton [1907]
 
4to; blue cloth backed, colour, pictorial, glazed paper covered boards; The titles on the upper board is printed in blue and red above pictures of fairies and sleeping beauty in the centre; pp [16] + 6 moveable and working flap chromolithograph pictures; the book comes with the very scarce original beige dust wrapper, with black font and a picture of a child playing with a younger sibling, that is also repeated on the title page; The book has some rubbing to the corners and a mark to the bottom of the upper board, there is moderate creasing to the front free end paper, and then a smattering of light foxing marks, dirt and finger marks to the card pages, Humpty Dumpty, the second nursery rhyme is perhaps a tad loose; the fragile dust wrapper has some loss to the spine and ends as well as tears to the edges, the upper edge has curled over, and perhaps trimmed as it is shorter than the book itself; the panels have some dirt marks, but in the main it is in decent shape; overall about very good. 
 
One of Ernest Nister’s pop up books, it contains six classic nursery rhymes, including Red Riding Hood, Humpty Dumpty, Little Bo Peep, Hey Diddle Diddle, Old Mother Hubbard and The Three Bears. The superb moveable flap pictures work such that you pull a tab to reveal a new picture, and then do again, for a third. The Red Riding Hood pictures in particular are a joy to behold. Such is the delicate nature of these books that it is a triumph to have working copies, but this one is particularly scarce to have its original dust wrapper.