Neuestes Bilder-Buch
A hand-coloured German alphabet picture book of 1860, the Neuestes Bilder-Buch, with each letter shown as a pair of upper and lower case forms over a small scene captioned with a German word. The four-panel pages put letters, captions and watercolour-style scenes into a tidy grid that a designer could use for a children's alphabet layout or a set of simple vignettes. The scenes range from a dancing tightrope walker and a ploughing farmer to an elephant, a goat and a tiger, all painted in flat, bright, slightly naive colour.
