Aleida - Vertellen en Luisteren. Vertellingen voor jongens en meisjes

G. Tiemersma Hz. & W.F. Oostveen [i.a.] - Vertellen en Luisteren. Vertellingen voor jongens en meisjes - Purmerend - J. Muusses - 1890 - 1st edition - [4], 144 pp - Cloth binding - 15 x 21 cm.

Condition: Excellent - perfectly restored by master bookbinder Hans Zegveld from Nijmegen.

Antique collection of short stories for 19th century youth with contributions by, among others, Aleida (= Johanna G.M. Berk, 1850-1900). Illustrated with 6 romantic chromolithographs (colour lithographs by P.W.M. Trap) and black and white drawings. With table of contents. Bound in a beautiful decorated binding, made by E.L.E. van Danzig, Amsterdam.

¶ The first story is a reminder of the fisherman's life and rescue on the beaches of Zandvoort (by S.M. Hofstede de Groot). "Henry Sommerfeld" is partly set on the Velperweg near Arnhem and provides information about smuggling practices and tax evasion. "Onder de wilden" ["Among the savages"] describes the cruelty of the Native Americans in North America and "Zomeravond" is a poem, illuminated with a beautiful print of a cow. Romance!