THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours.…

THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.] < >
  • Another image of THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.]
  • Another image of THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.]
  • Another image of THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.]
  • Another image of THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.]
  • Another image of THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.]
  • Another image of THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones. by [BENNETT, CHARLES.]

THE COMICAL STORY BOOK. With comical illustrations, printed in colours. Containing:- Greedy Jem, and his Little Brothers, The Faithless Parrot, Naughty Boys and Girls, and Lazybones.

London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. The Sad History of Greedy Jem and all his little brothers narrated, invented and drawn on the wood by Charles H. Bennett.[16] pages. The Faithless Parrot Designed and Narrated by Charles H. Bennett. [16] pages. Naughty Boys and Girls [Charles Bennett] [18] pages. Lazybones[ authorship and illustrator unknown, but probably Charles Bennett], [18] pages. Original blue pictorial cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. First edition thus. These titles would all have been issued separately, as shilling toybooks, during the early 1860's. Two of the three Struwwelpeter imitations are listed in Baumgartner's bibliography, 'Der Struwwelpeter.' Binding worn and re-cased at some time with the original spine laid down and new endpapers fitted; two tears repaired with tape; some marking; else a good plus copy of an extremely scarce work featuring three Struwwelpeter imitations; one of which, Lazybones, is not listed in Baumgartner.

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