Kinderbüchlein
Kinderbüchlein is a German children's picture book published in 1847 by Scheitlin & Zollikofer, credited to Johann Staub. The four wood-engraved pictures show an elderly man telling stories to a circle of children, a mother reading with young children indoors, two girls kneeling at a roadside crucifix, and two doves nesting among flowers. A designer could draw on their small vignette format, loose foliage borders, and the simple, warm domestic scenes typical of mid-nineteenth-century German juvenile print.
