Das bunte Buch : Geburtstags- und Weihnachtsgeschenk für Knaben und Mädchen
Das bunte Buch is a children's picture book published in 1835 by Mäcken, credited to Friedrich Hold and Johann Michael Voltz, offered as a birthday and Christmas gift for boys and girls. Its hand-coloured scenes of domestic life, a bell, and a sea rescue are small genre vignettes with bold outlines and warm, flat colour, useful to a designer looking for early nineteenth-century German folk-style narrative illustration and simple staged compositions.
