Neues Fleiß- und Sittenbüchlein für kleine Knaben : zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung, wie auch zur Übung im Lesen der gewöhnlichen deutschen Druckschriften ; mit 1 Kupfer
A German children's primer and moral reader of 1817 by Johann Zeugner, published by Franz Ferstl, for small boys learning to read German print and to be taught good conduct. Its single copper engraving shows Jesus seated on a stone bench under a palm, a child on his lap, with a mother and children gathered at his feet beneath the caption 'Jesus der Kinderfreund'; a designer might take its crisp fine-line hatching, tidy framing and the calm, rounded grouping of figures as a model for gentle, instructional scenes.
