STRUWWELPETER Catalogue Bibliography, 2 volumes

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Finally there has been published a descriptive catalogue of what is probably the best collection in private ownership of Heinrich Hoffmann's famous picture-book "Struwwelpeter" (or "Slovenly Peter" as he is known from English translations). Originally published in 1844, this book of moralizing verse tales with fantastic pictures for young has never been out of print, and it has generated countless reprints, piracies, parodies and imitations. There cannot be any serious collector of historic books for children who does not know the stories of Pauline and the Matches, Little Suck-a-Thumb, Cruel Frederick, Augustus who wouldn't eat his soup, Johnny Look-in-the-Air, and all the rest. From the shelves of collector Dr. Johannes Baumgartner is a two-volume descriptive catalogue of his library (GERMAN TEXT ONLY), profusely illustrated with many colored reproductions after the printed originals. These reference books were privately printed in Freiburg 1996 and 1998, each bound in colored cloth with a pictorial printed label mounted on the upper cover, the first 88pp and the second 103pp. They are great books just to look through to see all of the different illustration styles employed during these past 150+ years as well as the many different languages these tales have been translated into forming this important and influential body of work.

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