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Title: Internationaler Circus
Author: Meggendorfer, Lothar Description: Chromolithographed panorama of 6 three-dimensional fold-down circus scenes. Cloth-backed folding boards. First Edition.Considered by many to be Meggendorfer's most important work. The book unfolds to form an elaborate circus scene including clowns, acrobats, horses, orchestra, spectators, etc. Heading: zzaPlace Published: Esslingen Publisher: J.F. Schreiber Date Published: [1887] Condition reportOne of the fold-down scenes is detached from its board and others nearly so, a few pieces detached, but present, including the two end pieces to the bleachers; several figures have lost their extreme parts (heads, hands, feet, etc.); some splitting to cloth, final board detached; overall good and worthy of restoration.
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