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Some pictures from a German book of poems inspired by the legend of The Pied Piper of Hamelin:
The Pied Piper of Hamelin: An Adventure by Julius Wolff. Illustrated by Paul Thumann (1834 – 1908).
This is a large book, 10×13 inches or so (25×33cm), all three edges gilt, and with a fancy engraving and more gold on the front cover: an expensive edition for the time.
Title: Der Rattenfänger von Hameln: Eine Aventiure
Published by: G Grote’sshe Verlagsbuchhandlung
City: Berlin
Date: 1890
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
Front Cover, Pied Piper of Hamelin
The cover is red with gold foil stamping, and features the piper with his pipe, some very large rats around his ankles, some small barefoot children, and some birds, all in a decorative frame. [more...] [$]
Initial letter J with piper and rats
A dramatic decorated initial letter J at the start of a chapter, used as a dropped capital (drop cap) and also partly raised cap. [more...] [$]
Imploring the moon from th castle courtyard
A young clean-shaven man wearing a feathered hat and a cloak which is gathered up in his arms stands with his tilted looking at the full moon. He is in the courtyard of a medieval castle, outdoor stairs climbing up a tower behind him and the close houses of [...] [more...] [$]
Into the cellar, into the dungeon!
Lorenz here rushed down the steps, hitting every other one with his sword to scare away the ghosts, but it looks like they were not ghosts but rats. [more...] [$]
A giant wooden statue of a warrior with shield and sword
Perhaps we are in the medieval city of Hamelin here; our dauntless protagonist seems perhaps startled by the statue, which is twice as tall as he is. In the background an archway in a stone wall [...] [more...] [$]
Prisoner Chained in the Dungeon
A young man, beardless but with a moustache, and an unruly mop of hair, sits despondently on a sturdy bench in a stone-walled prison cell. There is a jug, perhaps of water, in a niche behind him. His wrists are manacled together in front of him, and one ankle has a metal cuff round it connected by a long chain to a ring set in the wall [...] [more...] [$]
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