The fight at Dame Europa's school : showing how the German boy thrashed the French boy, and how the English boy looked on

New York: Francis Felt, 1871. Original. Hardcover. Fair, front cover and spine separated from binding at hinge, binding sound but fragile. ffep separated. Ex-library with 3 labels, pages clean and edges straight, age darkening.. Brown cloth boards, 34 pp. 33 cartoon illustrations in bw. A nicely priced original edition of this classic. An 1871 didactic satire casting European countries at the time of the Franco-Prussian War as schoolchildren, and portraying their battles as schoolyard skirmishes. The text was written from a sympathetic French perspective, (truncated) and meant to warn British residents of the threat of a German invasion. (From Wikipedia). Also from Wikipedia: Thomas Nast (September 27, 1840 - December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist who is considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was the scourge of Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall machine. Among his notable works were the creation of the modern version of Santa Claus, and Uncle Sam (the male personification of the American people), as well as the political symbols of both major United States political parties: the Republican elephant and the Democratic donkey. (Inventory #: 129862)