This large-scale hardback book unfolds to reveal six scenes featuring exciting circus acts from around the world. The daredevil riders and their horses, the acrobats and clowns, the circus orchestra are all included in this three-dimensional spectacular.

International Circus is considered the masterpiece of Lothar Meggendorfer's pop-up books. A first edition, published in 1887 by J. F. Schreiber of Esslingen, Germany, is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.