Optical Toy.- Baynes (Thomas Mann) Fantascope, Ackermann & Co., 1833.

Optical Toy.- Baynes (Thomas Mann) Fantascope, invented by Professor Plateau of Brussels, containing 6 circular plates for an optical toy, a forerunner to the zoetrope, including two different dancing couples, a cat chasing a bird, a blue bird flying over roses, various coloured circular discs, and a man ringing a bell, original hand-coloured aquatint plates with apertures for viewing, each c.250mm. diameter, a few designs with short extensions beyond, these generally worn, surface dirt, contained between original cloth-backed boards with hand-coloured pictorial label mounted on upper cover, printed instructions mounted on front pastedown, one tie missing, 4to, Ackermann & Co., 1833.