Der papierne Drache : eine Knabenidylle, für die Straßburger Jugend
Der papierne Drache is a German pastoral idyll of boyhood written by Gottfried Dürrbach and published by Dannbach in 1818, addressed to the youth of Strasbourg. Its pictures are small black-line woodcut vignettes on cream paper: a bouquet of roses with buds, and a skep beehive beside a palm tree with bees in flight, with an oval Prussian royal library stamp. A designer might take their compact, delicate botanical and rural line work for borders, tailpieces and labels.
