Some of them are so rare that at the time of writing there is no known full collection of the originals of these masterpieces. This 3-D phenomenon, which fascinated a nation for 40 years, is yours to share.This book, the fruit of half a lifetime's study by three impas- sioned authors, brings every single one of the published Diableries into the 21st Century for the very first time. In France, around 1860, from the loins of a traditional national fascination with all things diabolical, was born a new sensation - a series of visionary dioramas depicting life in a strange parallel universe called ENFER - Hell - communicated to an eager audience by means of stereoscopic cards, to be viewed in the stereoscopes which had already become popular in the 1850s.
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