Der gebesserte Müßiggänger : mit 3 Kupfern
A German-language children's moral tale published by A. Asher in 1836, written by Mary Elliott and translated for young readers, with three copperplate engravings. The pictures show English village scenes of the 1830s: a boy in a top hat walking a country lane past a church spire and cottages, a seated gentleman with a dog in a doorway speaking to a boy holding a hat, and a shop front where three men in top hats and coats talk beside a window display. A designer could take from them the crisp hatched line work, period costume silhouettes, and compact narrative staging of early nineteenth-century English print.
