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A German illustrated book of animal fables from 1850, published by Hoffmann, with hand-coloured engravings of animals in human roles, each captioned with rhyming verse. The pictures are busy comic scenes of wolves, foxes, pigs and birds in clothes, acting out vices and virtues such as greed, flattery and cunning. A designer could take the hand-coloured caricature style, the layered panels with verse beneath each scene, and the anthropomorphic animal figures.
