(BOER WAR). PONTEN, Kees van, en CHRIS KRAS - Pillen voor Joe. Teekeningen van Jan Feith - Bijschrift van Kees van Ponten.

Amsterdam, Cohen Zonen, [1900]. Oblong 20 x 26 cm.(Drawings by Jan Feith with captions by Kees van Ponten). Amsterdam, Cohen Zonen, [1900]. Oblong 20 x 26 cm. Illustrated wrappers (with 2 lithographs). 28 p. with 28 color lithographs. 1st edition. Some tears in the cover, some cracks, backstrip worn and discolored. Very beautiful and fragile picture book of the gifted caricaturist Jan Feith (pseudo: Chris Kras), directed against the English in the Boer War. The rhymes by Van Ponten were written out by the artist. On the front, Paul Kruger carries a spoonful of pills to the British Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain, while on the lower cover, the man who rides a donkey dressed with a monocle, strongly reminds us of Winston Churchill.