Making Victorian Kinetic Toys by Philip and Caroline Freeman Sayer
Taplinger Publishing Group, 1977. Minor edge-wear to dustjacket. Near fine/near fine.
We definitely had Kaleidoscopes, Tops, and Zoetropes when we were young, but can’t recall a Praxinoscope (a vast improvement on the Zoetrope from 1877) or Filoscope (a fancy, but not too difficult to construct flip book) or Anamorphoscope (a really cool ‘abnormal transformation’ of an image, which are still used film projection, which has almost definitely been adapted to contemporary art, but we’re unaware of any such examples). Each device has a chapter on how it works too, and portraits of the inventors.
Taplinger Publishing Group, 1977. Minor edge-wear to dustjacket. Near fine/near fine.
We definitely had Kaleidoscopes, Tops, and Zoetropes when we were young, but can’t recall a Praxinoscope (a vast improvement on the Zoetrope from 1877) or Filoscope (a fancy, but not too difficult to construct flip book) or Anamorphoscope (a really cool ‘abnormal transformation’ of an image, which are still used film projection, which has almost definitely been adapted to contemporary art, but we’re unaware of any such examples). Each device has a chapter on how it works too, and portraits of the inventors.
Taplinger Publishing Group, 1977. Minor edge-wear to dustjacket. Near fine/near fine.
We definitely had Kaleidoscopes, Tops, and Zoetropes when we were young, but can’t recall a Praxinoscope (a vast improvement on the Zoetrope from 1877) or Filoscope (a fancy, but not too difficult to construct flip book) or Anamorphoscope (a really cool ‘abnormal transformation’ of an image, which are still used film projection, which has almost definitely been adapted to contemporary art, but we’re unaware of any such examples). Each device has a chapter on how it works too, and portraits of the inventors.