Details

Subject(s)

• Children's poetry [Browse]
• Wit and humor, Juvenile [Browse]
• Children—Conduct of life—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Children's poetry, German—Translations into English [Browse]

Publisher

• Miller, James, -1883 [Browse]

Related name

• Chatelain, Clara de, 1807-1876 [Browse]
• Forrester, Alfred Henry, 1804-1872 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Contains

• Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894. Struwwelpeter. English [Browse]
• Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894. König Nussknacker. English. [Browse]
• Krakemsides of Burstenoudelafen, Baron, 1804-1872. Funny leaves for the younger branches. [Browse]

Notes

• Cover title.
• A volume of five publications, including reprints from earlier English editions of Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter and König Nussknacker. According to Rühle, cited below, The child's mirror is a translation of Kinder-Spiegel (ca. 1848). Translations from the German possibly by Madame de Chatelain. The illustrations from Funny leaves are attributed to Alfred Crowquill (Alfred Henry Forrester).
• Date inferred from publisher's address on title pages of individual titles. Miller operated at 779 Broadway, New York, from 1877 to 1881.

Binding note

Pub. maroon beveled decorated cloth stamped in blind and gilt with yellow endpapers.

Contents

• Slovenly Peter, or, Pleasant stories and funny pictures
• King Nutcracker and Poor Reynold / by Hoffman, author of "Slovenly Peter" ; translated from the German
• Wonderful history of the great sausage and other funny stories and pictures
• Child's mirror
• Funny leaves for the younger branches / by Baron Krakemsides of Burstenoudelafen
• Young troublesome, or, Master Jacky's holidays / designed by Leech and engraved by Baker.

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References

Rühle, R. Böse Kinder, 767

Other title(s)

• Kinder-Spiegel. English.
• Wonderful history of the great sausage.
• Young troublesome, or, Master Jacky's holidays.

OCLC

54227571

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