The Marlborough Struwwelpeter play silk weaving

silk weaving

Pages trimmed

12mo (14 x 9 cms)

Sides generally a touch rubbed as ends of spines

and is fresh and clean with light wear only to extremities with a couple of short closed tears only

The Marlborough Struwwelpeter play silk weavingIllustrated by the Author London: Printed and published at the "Times" office, Marlborough, c 1908. Original pictorial boards with red linen spine, boards slightly grubby. 24 pages of coloured illustrations by the author accompanied by his text. Date of publication suggested by the Bodleian Library. A parody of H. Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, written and illustrated by A. de C. Williams. It follows the life and tribulations of a Marlborough College