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Walk Up! Walk Up! And See the Fools Paradise with the Many Wonderful Adventures There as Seen in the Strange Surprising Peep Show of Professor Wolley Cobble #[nn]

[1871] · 172 pages

On sale 1871-11

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Pencils
Wilhelm Busch
Inks
Wilhelm Busch

Notes

Title from title page. There are two books with different contents with this cover: this book from John Camden Hotten with title page "Walk Up! Walk Up! And See the Fools Paradise" and the other from Chatto & Windus with title page beginning "Further Adventures in Fools' Paradise".

Original green cloth with decoration and title to front and spine. Illustrated with color caricatures throughout. Printed on one side of each page only.

Contents: The music master -- Sixteen startling scenes in a monkey's life -- The three young rooks and the bird-nesters, who nearly got drowned in a pool of ink -- The puzzled peasant and the runaway porker -- The woeful panorama of the toothache -- The bad black hunter and the ponderous elephant -- The crinoline -- The merry sledge party and their marvellous slide -- The joking miller and the farmer who went to the mill with his grain and came back against his grain -- The clever boy and the cunning horse dealer -- The giant bear hunter and the bruin, who nearly caught him -- The troublesome boys and Diogenes the wise -- The jolly angler and the monstrous fish -- The goat and the swing -- The laughable goings on, and goings off, of the comical people of Noseyland

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