Hänschens Thierbude : Bilder und Reime für Knaben und Mädchen
A German picture book of 1872 by Fedor Flinzer, published by Germann, made for boys and girls with rhymed verses printed beneath each scene. The pictures are black and white wood engravings of children playing with animals, in cottage gardens, on a street of old timber houses, and in a crowded family room. A designer could take the tidy, humorous domestic scenes, the way the cat and dog are drawn as characters, and the stacked vignette layout with verse blocks below.
