Struwelpeter
pcb3203
TITLE
Struwelpeter : with coloured illustrations.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1858].
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859].
London : George Routledge & Sons, [1865].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
DESCRIPTION
Size
21,5x17 cm
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of February, 1858, as no. 1 of Funny books (6 titles)
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of December, 1858, as no. 8 of Routledge’s one shilling toy books & funny books (13 titles)
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of July, 1870, as no. 85 of Routledge’s new sixpenny toy books
NOTES
The publishers' caption "Routledge & Co." was in use before November 1858, when George Routledge took his eldest son Robert Warne Routledge into partnership
The publishers' caption "Routledge, Warne, and Routledge" was in use after May 1859, when William Henry Warne died, aged only 37
Between November 1858 and May 1859 the publishers' caption "Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge" was in use
This publication reproduces a book with same title published by David Bogue in 1856, itself borrowed from Julius Bähr's Die unartigen Kinder, illustrated by Theodor Hosemann (Berlin, Stuhr'sche Buchh, 1848)
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1858]: untraced
Variant B
[1859]
Variant C
[1865]
COPIES
JRUL: R225700 (variant B: [1859]; described as: "London : Routledge, Warnes & Routledge ... [between 1858 and 1865] ... Back board bears advertisements for Routledge's "New juvenile publications." ... From the collection of David Blamires ... Presentation inscription on first front free end-paper recto: Blossie Parker / from / [J. F.] Allsop. ... Small bookseller's label on front paste-down: Oldland & May / Booksellers / 28, Corn Street / Bristol"; not analysed)
NAL: 60.W.256 (variant C: [1865]; described as: "London, [approximately 1870]")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Struwelpeter". In PiCoBoo, accessed July 11, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb3203