ABC pour instruire les grands enfants. = ABC per instruare i grandi fanciulli ignoranti. = ABC zum praktischen Unterricht für grosse Kinder. [Germany?] s.n. [c. 1880?] Album, 16 x 12 cm: 24 photographic plates (incl. title) printed in sepia on albumen paper and mounted on cream cardboard sheets (some prints slightly overexposed). Br. with white paper spine (spine detached, plates detached). A very free erotic alphabet of evocative, erotic and sometimes scatological scenes, drawn and reproduced in photographs. The style and certain characters (e.g. a soldier with the letter K), as well as the predominant use of German in the text, bear witness to a Germanic origin. The letters G, H, I, J, K and L are grouped together in pairs on 3 pl.

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