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  1. She also has published two bibliographies of movable books, both entitled, Pop-up and Movable Books; Scarecrow Press, Lanham, MD, 1993, 2000. Robert Sabuda (b.1966) wins the Movable Book Society’s first Meggendorfer Prize (1998) for his The Christmas Alphabet (1994-Orchard Books).

  2. The first movable books actually predate the print culture. The earliest known examples of such interactive mechanisms are by Ramón Llull (c.1235-1316) of Majorca, a Catalán mystic and poet.

  3. Dec 19, 2022 · There are different kinds of movable books, and it may surprise you to know that the first of these were made in the Middle Ages and were definitely not for children! Now we get to the controversy. Some historians say the earliest example is a gatefold illustrated manuscript compiled between 1090 and 1120, titled Liber Floridus (Book of Flowers ...

  4. Pop-ups and movable books (with flaps and spinning dials) were meant for all ages, and they go back much further than most people think. The earliest surviving handmade manuscript flap dates to 1121, and the first dial (or volvelle) dates to 1250.

  5. S & J Fuller printed The History of Little Fanny in 1810, the first paper-doll book with movable paper clothes. Dean & Sons, credited with being the first to devise three-dimensional illustrations in the 1850s, began printing almost 50 different titles with other varied and inventive movable elements, such as “peepshows,” transformations, and metamorphoses .

  6. Oct 25, 2014 · The first "pop-up" was more of a machine than book. It was invented by Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1315), a writer, theologian, and mathematician, who later became a martyr in the Roman Catholic Church. Called a "Lullian Circle," the device was composed of several revolving, affixed circles each annotating an ideal.

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  8. By the end of the 15 th century, more than 29,000 different titles (or editions) had appeared in print and though many books were issued in runs of 200-300 copies, this still represented an exponential increase in the number of books available for readers before the invention of printing with movable type. 38 An estimated 10 million books may have been produced in less than fifty years ...