This book, by K .E. Garman (1908; Ideal Book Publishers, Chicago), is based on a mechanism "patented in 1907".
It is a "shape book" but each spread of 2 pages is split in half horizontally; the upper half represents one group of four dolls, and the lower half a different group. Each type of doll has an 8-line verse, spoken by the dolls. The 2 page spreads are as follows: In the Nursery and Japanese; Darkies and Holland dolls; Just dolls (to be dressed) and Indians; rope-skipping and Scandinavia; Chinese and Scotch Dolls; Rag Dolls and Turkey. and some attempt is made to describe and show actual dolls (e.g. the Darkies are made of baked clay, and this is shown; the Indian dolls include Kachina types), as well as cultural information.
This is a mechanical or "toy book." Every other physical page is cut horizontally into several strips, and the dolls are illustrated so that the heads are contained on one strip, the bodies on another, and legs on a third. Thus two of the four dolls in any picture can be "changed" by moving one or more strips so that the page beneath shows through.
Inside cover (with pictures of all the dolls, including the Japanese)
Japanese
We come from the land of the Rising Sun.
American girlie mothers coaxed us to come.
We brought our jinrikisha in which to ride out.
A boy doll will pull it and take us about.
Little Jap girls are good and kind
Better little mothers 'twould be hard to find.
We love them dearly--they love us too,
But we left them weeping and came to you.
Note (January 24, 2006): The illustrations in Moving Picture Dollies, including the Japanese dolls, became the basis for the Ideal Dollie Drawing and Painting Book (1910), which includes one more illustration of many dolls including a Japanese doll.