Hoffmann

réf. 53794 — Boston and New York Houghton Mifflin Company 1917. DELUXE FIRST EDITION 1917 date printed on title page 192 x 153 mm 7½ x 6 inches navy blue cloth over card cut flush gilt decorated and lettered on upper cover black rules also to upper cover no pagination 11 pages of text. Green floral border to title page 13 pages of line drawings most with more than 1 subject by Edward Waldo Emerson. These are based on the Hoffmann originals but completely redrawn. 9 'handwritten' stories. Near Fine excellent copy. Preface states that translation was made by the daughter of a friend of Emerson's who gave him a copy for his children. When the children grew up they wrote it down from memory for the next generation and Edward illustrated it. These stories were originally published in a book called Favourites of a Nursery and this is the first separate printing. It contains: Slovenly Peter Fie! naughty wild and Slovenly Peter!/I fear he never will be neater./For many many many weeks/No water has been near his cheeks;.'; Cruel Frederic; The Wild Huntsman; Pauline and the Matches; The Blackamoor; Rocking Philip; Young William alias Augustus; Johnny Look-in-the-Air; Flying Robert. Baumgartner I IV7; Ruhle No. 177. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. Postage at cost and all parcels sent fully tracked and fully insured. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. hardcover