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Slovenly Peter, or, Cheerful stories and funny pictures for good little folks : illustrations colored by hand after the original style

Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894 · 1919 · Philadelphia : John C. Winston · 145 pictures

Slovenly Peter is a 1919 Philadelphia reprint by John C. Winston of Heinrich Hoffmann's German cautionary verse for children, here with hand-coloured illustrations after the original. The pictures are loose, caricatured scenes of naughty children and grotesque figures, drawn with bold black outlines and flat watercolour washes that a designer could borrow for playful, mischievous character work.

Children's stories, German

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