Mährchen der alten Griechen und Römer
A German children's collection of Greek and Roman myths and fairy tales, retold by Albert Ludwig Grimm and illustrated by Peter Carl Geissler, published in 1844 by J. M. Gebhardt. The first picture is a library ownership stamp, which is not part of the book, and the second is a steel engraving of a youth reaching for golden fruit in a framed central panel, with mythic scenes in the margins. A designer might borrow its ornate scrollwork border and its dense, dramatic engraved tonal modelling.
