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Issue: Max and Maurice -- A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks #[nn]

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Publication Date: January 1871

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Issues: #[nn] of 1 Issue (4 Printings)

Title:

Variant: unnamed

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Publisher: Flag

Roberts Brothers

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Indicia Publisher: Roberts Brothers

On Sale Date: 1871

Volume:

Pages: 76

ISBN: none

UPC/EAN: none

Price: none entered

Indicia Frequency: none

Content Items: 11 (7 stories, 1 cover)

Editor(s): ?

Notes: Printed by John Wilson and Son.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870.

Best-known Wilhelm Busch book; The Katzenjammer Kids were inspired by Max and Maurice at order of William Randolph Hearst.

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Format

Publication Type: Hardcover

Color: hand-coloured cover and interiors

Dimensions: 8-1/8" tall x 5-5/8" wide

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Binding: hardcover

Publishing Format: standalone

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Max and Maurice -- A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks #[nn] [unnamed variant]

Max and Maurice -- A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks #[nn] [1875]

Max and Maurice -- A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks #[nn] [1882 hand-coloured]

Max and Maurice -- A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks #[nn] [1895]

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Content Items (11 total)

Max and Maurice

Illustration on Cover, Front

Credits

Penciller(s): ?

Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Max and Maurice

Credits on Interior Page(s)

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Inker(s): ?

Letterer(s): ?

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1

Preface

Foreword, Introduction, Preface, Afterword on Interior Page(s)

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Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 1.3

Trick First

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: Max and Maurice set up a trick which ends up killing a widow's hens and crow.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7.7

Notes: Victorian style comic -- text above/below pictures, no word balloons

Trick Second

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: The widow sets the birds on a fire to cook. Max and Maurice fish them away via hooks down her chimney.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: hybrid between highly illustrated children's story & victorian style comic story

Trick Third

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: Max and Maurice sabotage a bridge to collapse when someone crosses it.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Victorian style comic -- text above/below pictures, no word balloons

Trick Fourth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: Max and Maurice put gunpowder in a minister's smoking pipe.

Reprinting

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: hybrid between highly illustrated children's story & Victorian style comic story

Trick Fifth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: Max and Maurice stick a bag full of insects into their Uncle Fritzy's bed.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8.7

Notes: Victorian style comic -- text above/below pictures, no word balloons

Trick Sixth

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: Max and Maurice, who have fallen into a vat of dough while trying to steal pretzels, are caught by the baker, who shoves them into his oven. The outer dough bakes, but they eat their way out and escape.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 8.3

Notes: Victorian style comic -- text above/below pictures, no word balloons

Last Trick

Story on Interior Page(s)

Credits

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Max and Maurice

Character(s): Max; Maurice

Synopsis: Max and Maurice slice a farmer's bags so his grain falls out when he picks them up. The farmer catches them, sticks them in a hopper, and grinds them to bits which are eaten by ducks. The town rejoices.

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Miscellaneous

Pages: 7

Notes: Victorian style comic -- text above/below pictures, no word balloons

New Books for the Autumn and Winter of 1870-71

Advertisement on Interior Page(s)

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 8

Notes: 1871 edition: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00026179/00001/61

1875 edition: https://books.google.fr/books?id=Vx6aL-m-qJYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&source=gbs_ViewAPI&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510009547973;view=1up;seq=1
has ads for books by Louisa May Alcott, Susan Coolidge, and Louise Chandler Moulton, with illustrations by Addie Ledyard, and New Books for the Holiday Season 1873-74, and Jean Ingelow's Poems.

1882 edition: http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00049819/00001/59j has ads for books by Louisa May Alcott, Susan Coolidge, and Louise Chandler Moulton, each with full page illustrations (some signed C.A. Powell, W.H. Morse, Addie Ledyard).