FEUERFUNKCHEN Fire Sparkles

by Roland

$4,000 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix · No longer available

Germany : n.p, 1921 . A gorgeously illustrated handmade production from the Golden Age of children's illustration, by an unknown or pseudonymous artist-author credited only as Roland. Very good. Item #39868 A cautionary tale of the dangers of fire, FEUERFUNKCHEN partakes strongly of the German folktale tradition, somewhere midway between the Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Hoffmann. In measured couplets enhanced by singular

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