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The Struwwelpeter Alphabet. BEGBIE (Harold).
Illustrated in colours by F. Carruthers Gould.
First Edition. 4to. [270 x 220 x 9 mm]. [2], 26 ff. Bound in the publisher's brown boards illustrated with the Kaiser and title in colour on the front and a vignette on the rear, red cloth spine. (Splits at inner hinges but firm, a little rubbed and marked).
London: Grant Richards, 1900
The penultimate leaf is creased and there is a short worm track at the head of the last few leaves. It is a good copy. Printed on the rectos only.
Each letter is represented by a prominent figure or two - K, for example, is Kitchener and Kipling, with accompanying verse:
"Men of different trades and sizes,
Here you see before your eyeses;
Lanky sword and stumpy pen,
Doing useful things for men;
When the Empire wants a stitch in her
Send for Kipling and for Kitchener".
Stock no. ebc7943
Illustrated in colours by F. Carruthers Gould.
First Edition. 4to. [270 x 220 x 9 mm]. [2], 26 ff. Bound in the publisher's brown boards illustrated with the Kaiser and title in colour on the front and a vignette on the rear, red cloth spine. (Splits at inner hinges but firm, a little rubbed and marked).
London: Grant Richards, 1900
The penultimate leaf is creased and there is a short worm track at the head of the last few leaves. It is a good copy. Printed on the rectos only.
Each letter is represented by a prominent figure or two - K, for example, is Kitchener and Kipling, with accompanying verse:
"Men of different trades and sizes,
Here you see before your eyeses;
Lanky sword and stumpy pen,
Doing useful things for men;
When the Empire wants a stitch in her
Send for Kipling and for Kitchener".
Stock no. ebc7943
Illustrated in colours by F. Carruthers Gould.
First Edition. 4to. [270 x 220 x 9 mm]. [2], 26 ff. Bound in the publisher's brown boards illustrated with the Kaiser and title in colour on the front and a vignette on the rear, red cloth spine. (Splits at inner hinges but firm, a little rubbed and marked).
London: Grant Richards, 1900
The penultimate leaf is creased and there is a short worm track at the head of the last few leaves. It is a good copy. Printed on the rectos only.
Each letter is represented by a prominent figure or two - K, for example, is Kitchener and Kipling, with accompanying verse:
"Men of different trades and sizes,
Here you see before your eyeses;
Lanky sword and stumpy pen,
Doing useful things for men;
When the Empire wants a stitch in her
Send for Kipling and for Kitchener".
Stock no. ebc7943