A TUCK BOOK easel and palette trademark symbol, The P versions are marked- PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD. FINE ART PUBLISHERS BY APPOINTMENT TO THE LATE KING GEORGE VI, H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER AND H.M. QUEEN MARY. COPYRIGHT. PRINTED AND MADE IN ENGLAND. or RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS, LTD. PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING & QUEEN. LONDON. PARIS. NEW YORK. DESIGNED IN ENGLAND-PRINTED IN GERMANY. the regular numbered versions are earlier about 1920 and are marked PUBLISHERS TO THE KING & QUEEN, LONDON, PARIS, NEW YORK paper toy books for children made in four sections and connected on the edges as they are designed to fold out sideways. One side has four images with slots in which to place the appropriate figural pieces, the other has two story pages and the front and back cover images. When not in use the figural pieces can be kept in the envelope section attached to the back cover with the instructions and the book can be folded up to it's original size. SOME come with fold out versions with envelopes and some with stapled versions where the pages do not fold out and no envelope. Some were reproduced by the SHACKMAN company.
Title
WITH FATHER TUCK AT THE CIRCUS PANORAMA, foldout version,
Number
7891
Item Comment
this copy is poor with separated pages with many missing figural images, DIRECTIONS. TO MAKE THE PANORAMIC PICTURES, INSERT THE FIGURES, WHICH WILL BE FOUND IN THE POCKET ATTACHED TO THIS BOOK, INTO THE SPACES WHICH ARE MARKED WITH NUMBERS CORRESPONDING TO THOSE UPON THE FIGURES. A VARIETY OF SCENES, HOWEVER, CAN BE FORMED, AND UNENDING PLEASURE PROVIDED, BY PLACING THE FIGURES IN INNUMERABLE POSITIONS, AND SOMETIMES IN ONE PICTURE BACKGROUND SOMETIMES IN ANOTHER, SO THAT CONSTANT CHANGE AND INTEREST IS OBTAINED.
