The English Struwwelpeter, or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures For Little Children

Author Written and illustrated by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann German

Publisher Friedrich Volckmar German

Publisher The German Literary Society British

[1860s]

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Title: The English Struwwelpeter, or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures For Little Children
Author: Written and illustrated by Dr. Heinrich Hoffmann (German, 1809–1894)
Publisher: Friedrich Volckmar (Leipzig)
Publisher: The German Literary Society (London)
Date: [1860s]
Medium: Illustrations: etching, hand colored
Dimensions: 10 5/16 x 8 x 3/16 in. (26.2 x 20.3 x 0.4 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Frederic F. Durand, 1933
Object Number: 33.39.115
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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