[Game]. Diaspagram. Alphabet of subjects in action French English. No address, no place, no date. [France. ca. 1860]. Publisher's cardboard box (24 x 29.8 x 2.5 cm), lithograph, hand-colored and gummed, applied to the lid, a couple of young children, in lake and mountain landscapes, playing Diaspagram, three sheep and game of shuttlecock on the ground (signed D. S.), gilt embossed paper frieze, edges of the lid of pale pink moiré paper, enclosing 24 cut-out cardboard subjects, pedestaled on the back, lithographed, hand-colored and gummed. Rare complete set of shaped alphabetical subjects, lithographed, brush colored and enhanced with gum arabic. A precious unknown set with subjects in action cut out at the top following the illustration and bearing a black wooden half-circle glued to the back allowing them to be placed vertically. Twenty-four contemporary characters (or animals), mostly children, I. J. on the same figure, no W. A large initial in block letters, lower left, two occurrences per illustration, whose names, in feet, to be spelled out, appear in a white band. Under these French captions, the English translation, in italics, is written. Beautiful period colors featuring the most vivid characters. Missing on one edge of the box cover.