Oblong picture book with hand-colored engravings (8 full-page and 1 with 4 scenes on a page) and rhyming text. Hans, a rascal, leaves his parental home when he is twelve years old. He apprentices as a wigmaker's boy, works as a buffoon at the fair, pretends to be a doctor, works as pierrot at lehman, becomes a coachman, a dresser, insults a black servant who takes revenge and then tries his hand as a winery musician. 17 p. , 9 bl. Pl: handclap lith // the reverse of the illustrations is unprinted // plates signed with h. W. A. Hilverdink, fuchs, arum, jaw. H, and tollenaar (presumably dirk wijbrand tollenaar wz. ) //. Dating: not in brinkman, not in lust and leering, publisher active 1840-1884, sequel published ca. 1848 // to be continued by: loontje comes for his beantje, or the sad castle of the guiterings of hans-kijk-in-de-wereld, ca. 1848 (taken from lust and leering)
professions // fairs // picture books // rhyming stories // humorous stories // warning stories.
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