As I have said many times, Maria Popova – aka @BrainPicker – is completely ace. She has now surpassed even herself by turning a saucy Victorian pop-up book into a series of animated gifs on her blog so that we can all enjoy them! Here’s what she wrote at BrainPickings.org:

“…Being a lover of unusual pop-up books and naughty Victoriana, imagine my delight at the discovery of The Naughty Nineties: A Saucy Pop-Up Book for Adults Only (public library) — a marvelous 1982 gem that transports you a century back, to the friskiest frontiers of Victorian society in the 1890s, illustrated in a black-and-white ink style reminiscent of Edward Gorey’s and outfitted with various pull-tabs and paper mechanics for your playful pleasure…”

Click here to see the animations.