Aschenbrodel punch out panorama 1911 - by Tuck German partner A. Molling - Very Fine

Aschenbrodel bilder zum ausschneiden und aufstellen (Cinderella - pictures to puch out and display)

Publisher: Molling & Comp C-G Hannover

#705 in Molling´s Fröbel-Bücher series, 1911* (“Frobel-Bilder ges gesch* is indicated on lower left corner)

Illustrated orig. wrappers (staple binding). Oblong 8vo.

Extremely Scarce and unrecorded example of a Raphael Tuck style panorama booklet published by Tuck’s German partner publisher A. Molling & Company. Movable Books by large German publisher Molling are very difficult to find.

4 plates to punch out. Embossed die-cut images and green stands. Illustrated orig. wrappers (staple binding). Oblong 8vo.

Very Fine condition, undamaged and still bound with all punch out pieces unpunched and intact

Licht und Schatten - Volume 1, Issues 28-32, Hrsg. v. Hanns von Lumppenberg, 1911 mentions Frobel books Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White - for cutting out and displaying. Products made in Germany between 1900 and 1920 were often marked Ges. Gesch. (gesetzlich geschützt), which means "registered trademark" in Germany.

The Lithographic Art and Publishing Institute Hannover A. Molling & Comp. [1] was an internationally active printing and publishing company in Hanover [2] and Berlin. Molling specialized in children’s picture books, which were marketed worldwide. They included the Fröbel books such as these panoramas, game and picture books, as well as fairy tale books, “glue books,”and large-format bound picture books. They also advertised “ illustrated postcards, cards of congratulation, calendars, fancy papers, posters, and labels “

The company was founded by Adolf Molling [2] (November 20, 1830 to October 9, 1894) in 1887

Molling & Comp. printed books for Raphael Tuck & Sons, whose motifs were also used in their own book productions. Molling was one of several unidentified German printers working for Raphael Tuck. Molling often used Tuck’s plates or stones to print images for their own publication adoptions and parallels. So far more than three dozen publications with the same illustrations published by Tuck in English and by Molling in German, Italian, French, and Estonian have been identified (see Sheridan-Quantz 2013).

Adolf Molling started with 30 workers in 1887, he passed away 7 years later. By 1912 the firm employed over 350 people and were printing books in 19 different languages.

As a Jewish-owned firm, the family business of A. Molling & Comp. was forced to sell during the Nazi dictatorship and the Molling family emigrated in the late 1930s. The original works buildings in Schneiderberg 38/39. and most archival records were destroyed by Allied bombs in 1943.

PDF: “Our publications are available worldwide”:A forgotten German printer and his global connections 1887-1939” by Dr. Edel Sheridan-Quantz a Freelance geography translator, researcher and author, Hannover, Germany.

Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal - Page 1364, 1912

(Written in German) Jattie Enklaar / Hans Ester / Evelyne Tax (eds.): Studies on children's and young people's literature in European exchange from 1800 to today. ( Studien über Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im europäischen Austausch von 1800 bis heute.) Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2016 - SBN-13: 9783826060816