- Small quarto, 7-5/8 inches high by 7-5/8 inches wide. Gray pictorial cloth titled in red & black with colored illustration on the front cover. The covers are bumped & soiled with light stains. The spine is darkened. 28 & [1] pp. Pages 5-[29] are printed on one side only. Profusely illustrated with stencil hand-colored pictorial title, vignettes & illustrations surrounding the text on each leaf. The front endpaper is detached with a contemporary owner's inscription on the verso. There is a very light ink notation along the top of the flyleaf & an ink notation along the top of the title. The page edges are slightly darkened with occasional light soiling. Good.

Third thousand.

A delicately hand-colored work. Rare. RLIN locates only 2 copies, an 1884 edition, and a 1908 edition.

The text is in German.

CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; HAND-COLORED; NURSERY RHYMES; GERMAN; ILLUSTRATOR; FEDOR FLINZER; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; JUGENDBRUNNEN; RARE; ILLUSTRATIONS.