310457 SPECIAL BOOKS Theodor Brand, Sonneberg. The Speaking Toybook, reproducing the Voices of the Cock, the Goat, the Cat, the Bird, the Lamb and the Cuckoo. Theodor Brand: Sonneberg, circa 1910. 18 pp. (endpapers included) with 6 chromolithographic plates. Cloth, illustrated front board and title in gilt. Design: Jeanie Rose Brewer (Text). 185x221 mm. Circa 1910.
In Sonneberg, which developed into the „world capital of the toy industry“ in the 2nd half of the 19th century, numerous so-called pull voices for dolls and toy animals were produced. In 1878, the Sonneberg publisher Theodor Brand was granted a patent for the combination of illustrations with voices in the form of a book. The „ speaking picture book“ became a great success.... (https://sammlungen.tu-dresden.de/Details/Index/38793 on Dec. 2, 2021. Translated with the help of DeepL).
Binding in very good conservation, joint split, the text faintly soiled, all voices in working order.  

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