Editing Struwwelpeter (section)

===Publications===
The first appearance of Hoffmann's book outside his immediate family circle was in a meeting organized by Frankfurt literary club Tutti Frutti Society (''Gesellschaft der Tutti-Frutti'') on 18 January 1845. On the evening of that day, Zacharias Löwenthal, a co-founder of publishing company Literarische Anstalt, bought Hoffmann's book for 80 [[Gulden (currency)|gulden]]. Hoffmann later wrote that "[in] that night, at 11 o'clock, I had, almost without knowing what I had done, suddenly become an author of juvenile books."<ref name=":0" />

The book first appeared in the Frankfurt marketplace in October of that year under the title ''Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder mit 15 schön kolorierten Tafeln für Kinder von 3–6 Jahren'' ("funny stories and droll pictures with 15 beautifully coloured panels for children of 3–6 years"). The first version had its illustrations printed with [[Lithography|lithographic plates]] and colored by hand with [[Stencil|stencils]], the text was printed using [[typesetting]]. On 3 October, the book was advertised in the [[Börsenblatt]] for a retail price of 48 [[kreuzer]].<ref name=":0" />

In 1846, three other editions of the book were published. The second edition had 5,000 copies produced, each of which was priced at 57 kreuzer; Hoffmann's royalty was of 6.25 percent per copy. Hoffmann's name was only partially revealed in the second edition, where he used the pseudonym "Hoffmann Kinderslieb". His authorship of the book was, however, fully revealed to the public in an advertisement featured on a Frankfurter Konversationsblatt publication on 11 December 1846. Hoffmann's real name was only fully displayed in the fifth edition, which was published in 1847.<ref name=":0" />

The third edition was the first to be officially titled ''Struwwelpeter'', though the second edition had already been nicknamed as such by some book reviewers.<ref name=":0" />