ABC- und Lesebuch
An 1850 German alphabet and reading primer published by Bagel, made for children learning to read, with each page pairing a hand-coloured woodcut-style animal or rural scene with rhyming German verses. The pictures show goats, horses, a cow, a dog, a donkey, a stag and a calf in simple farmyard and woodland settings, with a sleigh and a dog-and-hunter scene. A designer could draw on their naive, flat colouring and the tidy stacking of image above text for simple, folk-style picture-and-caption layouts.
