Fibel : herausgegeben von einem Lehrer-Vereine
A German primer (Fibel) published in 1873 by the Verlag der Schulbuchhandlung and compiled by a teachers' association for young schoolchildren learning to read. The one picture shows a rooster in profile, standing on a patch of ground with grass tufts, rendered in fine engraved hatching. A designer might take from it the dense parallel-line shading that gives feathers their texture and volume, and the simple, centred single-animal composition common in early reading books.
