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Subject(s)

• Hoffmann, Heinrich 1809-1894—Struwwelpeter—Parodies, imitations, etc [Browse]
• Boys—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Conduct of life in literature [Browse]
• Wit and humor, Juvenile [Browse]

Printer

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

Routledge, Warne, & Routledge [Browse]

Bookseller

William Smith & Son [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed boards [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]

Series

• Routledge's new toy books ; 9 [More in this series]
• Funny books

Summary note

Versions of Struwwelpeter stories with boys behaving badly.

Notes

• Title, imprint, and series from upper cover; printer from lower cover; additional series from Masaki.
• "Funny books, One shilling"--At head of title.
• Date from Masaki, based Routledge's 1858 catalog (I, p. 243). (Routledge, Warne & Routledge published under that imprint at Farringdon Street location 1858 and 1863: cf. Brown, P.A.H. London publishers, p. 167.)
• Illustrations; Full-page, hand-colored wood-engravings with printed text set within text boxes on each page; engravings are the same as in the earlier Routledge & Co. ed., which has a t.p. (cf. Cotsen 91365), but the text layout is revised.
• Publisher's advertisement on lower cover for New Juvenile Publications lists 15 numbered Routledges' [sic] New Toy Books, with this title as no. 9, and 8 Routledges' Eighteenpenny Books for Young Readers.
• Cotsen copy: "Wm. Smith & Sons, 186 Strand, London"--Bookseller's embossed stamp on front free endpaper.

Binding note

Pub. green paper-covered bds., with pictorial upper printed in red & black, and publisher's advertisement on lower; green paper spine strip.

Contents

• The boy who was careless of his clothes
• The eagles who went "boys' nesting"
• The boy who was frightened at soap and water
• The boy who ill-treated the servants
• The mimic
• The greedy thief.

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References

Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture books, I, p. 472

OCLC

15617006

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