Neues Buchstabier- und Lesebuch mit der ersten Grundlage menschlicher Erkenntniß
A German spelling and reading primer published in 1803 by Georg Friedrich Seiler, printed by the Bibelanstalt for young learners. Its single small woodcut vignette shows a stone altar or pedestal wreathed in smoke, with a sun-like burst of rays behind it and a dangling wreath or ribbon at its side. A designer might take from it the compact emblematic style of early nineteenth-century German schoolbook tailpieces, where a radiating sunburst and a smoking altar sit in a tight rectangle as a symbol of devotion or learning.
