Neues ABC, Lese- und Unterhaltungsbuch zur Entwickelung der Seelenkräfte der Jugend beiderlei Geschlechts
A Berlin primer and reading book of 1826 by Friedrich Selbiger, with illustrations by Meno Haas, published by Amelang for children of both sexes to develop their mental faculties. The four hand-coloured plates show children and adults in simple outdoor scenes: a woman holding a child beside a building, figures walking in a field, a fallen boy in a garden with a rotunda, and a woman running past a wall. A designer might take their flat watercolour-like palette, loose outlines and clear gestures of alarm and surprise as a model for naive, storybook scenes.
