[DCRM-L] Help with illustration term

[Helena Zinkham]

In case helps with the literary-warrant aspect, here's another citation
that leans toward 'flap.'

"Flap picture" is a category of paper novelty in the "Encyclopedia of
empherema" by Maurice Rickards (NY: Routledge, 2000).

The flap picture emerged in the early 1800s and "featured an
illustration in which a part of parts of a picture could be lifted to
reveal an image underneath."   "The device was used in a wide range of
contexts--patriotic, satirical, sentimental, and not infrequently,
risque."  Later popular with greeting cards. Current example: Advent
calendars.

Helena Zinkham
Prints & Photographs Div.
Library of Congress

>>> Karen Nipps <nipps at fas.harvard.edu> 7/14/2008 10:17 AM >>>
In the world of children's books, these are known as "flap books." In 
the past, for lack of a specific genre term, at both the Library
Company 
and Houghton, we have taken to using the more general, but widely 
recognized, LCSH term "toy and movable books". - Karen

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> *On Behalf Of *Auyong, Dorothy
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 10, 2008 4:38 PM
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> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] Help with illustration term
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> We need help describing what are, for want of a better term, “lift
the 
> flap” type illustrations in a 1841 Obstetrics atlas. In this case,
the 
> illustrations are generally of various “fetus in womb”
situations, and 
> the reader lifts one or more flaps to see the progression of the
image.
>
> We’ve run across this lacunae in the terminology before with
“pop-up” 
> type illustrations in a 16^th century mathematical work they
weren’t 
> volvelles, but illustrations or tables that changed as you pulled on

> flaps. “Pop-up books” exists in AAT as a term for a work
consisting 
> primarily of these interactive illustrations, but there’s no 
> terminology for the individual types of illustrations themselves.
>
> I appeal to the collective wisdom of the list for help!
>
> Dorothy Auyong
>
> Principal Rare Book Cataloger
>
> Huntington Library
>
> dauyong at huntington.org 
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