ABC und Lesebuch : zunächst für die untersten Klassen der deutschen Schulen im Waisenhause
An 1825 German primer, the ABC und Lesebuch by August Hermann Niemeyer, published by the Waisenhaus bookshop for the lowest classes of German schools in the orphanage. The single picture is a woodcut headpiece of a large multi-storey institutional building under a radiant sun with two winged figures holding a scroll inscribed with a Bible citation, framed by scrolling acanthus ornament. A designer might take the radiating sunburst, the scroll-and-wings emblem, and the baroque flourishes as period devices for a dignified, devotional or educational heading.
