Heinrich Hoffman: 'The English Struwwelpeter, or Pretty Stor...

Hammer

£38

Heinrich Hoffman: 'The English Struwwelpeter, or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children', Leipsig, Friedrich Volckmar, and London, at the Agency of the German Literary Society, [nd], c.1856, 11th English edition, "After the 23rd edition of the Celebrated German Work", 24 pages with hand-coloured illustrations by the author, 4to (24 x 19cm), rebound cloth retaining large part of original printed linen[?] covers. A scarce early English edition of these cautionary rhymes, first published in 1845