Those Ingenious Books with Surprise Illustrations
These books with three-dimensional illustrations have their forerunner in the “PANORAMOSCOPE”, created in Germany in 1730. It consisted of a series of planes and backgrounds hollow in the centre, seen through a magnifying lens inside a tunnel-like box. In the mid-19th century in England a simple version of that device appeared, in which planes and backgrounds were joined by folded strips of paper; by pulling a…