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| Title | English Struwwelpeter, or, Pretty stories and funny pictures for little children (p. 16) |
| Author | Hoffman, Heinrich, 1809-1894 |
| Publisher | Rütten & Loening
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| Publisher Location | Germany--Frankfurt am Main |
| Publication Date | c. 1875 |
| Printer | Weisbrod, August
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| Illustrator | Unknown
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints
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| Notes | Illustrated with color relief prints.
Classic tales in verse about naughty boys and girls and the fates that befall them when they misbehave.
This verse depicts the "Story of Little Suck-a-thumb" who would not stop sucking his thumbs so a tailor chopped them off with giant scissors. |
| Contextual Notes | Struwwelpeter was first published in Germany in 1845 under the title "Lustige Geschichten und Drollige Bilder" and was described as "one of the earliest and most successful author-artist picture-books for the very young." It's author, Heinrich Hoffmann, was a German psychiatrist and the superintendent of a "progressive" mental hospital. This book, supposedly intended to be therapeutic, was written for his three-year old son. It was reissued as "Struwwelpeter" in 1847 with added stories and pictures. In 1848 it was translated into English. The priority of the hundreds of editions is often determined by the slovenliness of Peter's features, particularly his hair. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Children--Conduct of life; Children's poetry |
| Category | Discrimination and bigotry
Cautionary tales
Moral instruction
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0610 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Object Type | Book
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| Physical Description | 24 p.: illustrated; 26 x 20.5 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist 20.5 |
