Waldmeisterlein : eine Erzählung für Christenkinder ; mit Abbildungen
Waldmeisterlein is a children's Christian tale in German, written by Ernst Meissgeier and published in 1837 by Johann Friedrich Steinkopf. The four pictures are small woodcut vignettes: a shepherd pointing across a pasture of sheep, a horned devil confronting a traveller in a dark wood, miners working in a cave, and a walker with a staff passing a village below mountains. A designer could draw on their compact, sketchy linework and the simple rural scenes for quick narrative illustration.
