1907, ITALY: The cover of book LA TIGRE DEL BENGALA (Avventure indiane --- The tiger of Bengala) by Antonio Quattrini, Società Editrice Roma, Como, 1907. Quattrini was an emulator and plagiarist of adventure books for children, with an exotic setting, at time in vogue thanks to the celebrated italian writer EMILIO SALGARI (1863-1911)