Schönes Bilderbuch für artige Kindlein und die es werden wollen
Schönes Bilderbuch für artige Kindlein und die es werden wollen is a German children's picture book of moral verses, made by Eduard Wießner in 1865 for well-behaved small children and those hoping to become them. Its hand-coloured scenes of domestic and village life are set under rhyming German couplets printed beneath each picture. A designer could take from them the warm, stiff, storybook figure poses, simple interiors with tiled stoves and timber-framed houses, and the bold flat colour of mid-nineteenth-century lithographed children's books.
