Fores’s Moving Panorama, or Optical Illusions, Giving Life and Activity to Inanimate Objects.

Oblong 4to. Facsimile phenakistiscope discs from the George Eastman House collection, originally published by Fores’s of London in 1833, with a couple by Giroux of Paris (ca. 1830s-1840s). Phenakistiscope included (a wooden handle with rotating screw, to which discs are to be attached, interchangeably, and spun to produce optical illusion of movement). No batteries required!