395 - Hoffmann, Heinrich. *King Nutcracker* and *The Poor Boy*, Reinhold. *A Christmas Story, with Pictures*. Translated into English verse ... by A. H. With 1 woodcut frontispiece and 13 illustrations in the text. 40 pp., 8 pp. (publisher’s advertisement). London, (Thomas Harrild for) William S. Orr & Co., 1854. 18 x 14 cm. Contemporary calfskin binding with gilt spine, gilt fillets on the covers, and gilt inner edges, with the original color-illustrated brochure bound inside (leather binding with broken joints, missing headbands, somewhat rubbed, bumped, and cracked).

Hoffmann, Heinrich. *King Nutcracker* and *The Poor Boy*, Reinhold. *A Christmas Story, with Pictures*. Translated into English verse ... by A. H. With 1 woodcut frontispiece and 13 illustrations in the text. 40 pp., 8 pp. (publisher’s advertisement). London, (Thomas Harrild for) William S. Orr & Co., 1854. 18 x 14 cm. Contemporary calfskin binding with gilt spine, gilt fillets on the covers, and gilt inner edges, with the original color-illustrated brochure bound inside (leather binding with broken joints, missing headbands, somewhat rubbed, bumped, and cracked). A very rare edition, first printed in this translation in London by Thomas Harrild, of Heinrich Hoffmann’s *The Nutcracker King and Poor Reinhold*, originally published in Frankfurt in 1851—his second children’s book after *Struwwelpeter*. - The woodcut illustrations are mostly signed “Lee” and are based directly on Hoffmann’s own drawings for the first German edition. - The internal joints are broken and poorly glued; the pages are slightly browned; the original bound brochure is trimmed somewhat unevenly; the book is slightly dusty and stained. *