Harold B. Lentz (paper engineer), The “Pop-Up” Pinocchio, Newberry Library (1932) [Cover and views of “pop-up” Pinocchio and Gepetto in the whale.]
Vincenzo Coronelli (1650–1718); Jean-Baptiste Nolin (1648–1708), engraver. Celestial Globe Gores. Paris: Nolin, 1693. Eight of twenty-four half-gore engravings. Courtesy of the Art and Jan Holzheimer Collection/Photo: Susan Aurinko
There is a wonderful fold-out book from 1876 with the anatomy of an eye in which the lens is covered with a mylar-like material. The Newberry is fortunate to own a dozen flap textbooks by Albrecht Dürer from 1525, as well as a stunning Dürer map that hangs on the north wall of the gallery in which each of the winds is portrayed as full-cheeked and blowing. There is a book with secret dials from 1563, and clever floral books in which bouquets of flowers lift to reveal risqué nudes beneath. The design elements in all of the exhibition’s books are amazingly clever.
Harold B. Lentz (paper engineer), The “Pop-Up” Pinocchio, Newberry Library (1932) [Cover and views of “pop-up” Pinocchio and Gepetto in the whale.]
Peter Apian, Cosmographia liber Petri Apiani (Cosmography of Peter Apian), Newberry Library (1524) [Boat-shaped volvelle about the horizon and lunar dial for nighttime time-telling.]
“Pop-up Books Through the Ages” is on view at The Newberry Library, 60 West Walton through July 15.