[NISTER, Ernest]. Pretty Polly. A Novel Book for Children. With an Introduction by F.E. Weatherly. London: Ernest Nister (ca. 1895). 8vo, [28]pp. Brown cloth spine with glazed color pictorial boards. Patterned endpapers; 4 chromolithograph pop-ups with half-tone illustrations on all other pages. Edges a bit worn, some scratching and soiling to boards, some light discoloring to sheets with some hand-soiling  to margins, else an attractive copy with all of the chromolithographic pop-ups still fully functional.

 

An early pop-up book from the prolific publisher and book designer Ernest Nister with four simple but charming pop-ups magnificently rendered with chromolithographic illustrations. A charming collection of poems, fairy tales, and short stories including a whimsical original fairy tale by E. Nesbit!