Lebensbilder, in Erzählungen, Gesprächen und Reisen zur belehrenden und angenehmen Unterhaltung : Eine Weihnachtsgabe für Deutschlands wißbegierige Jugend
A German-language illustrated juvenile miscellany of stories, conversations and travels, compiled by Christian Köhnke and published by Karl Aue in 1837 as a Christmas gift for German young readers. Its hand-coloured steel-engraved plates sit in ornate oval frames with foliage borders and small vignette scenes below, showing a greeting between two gentlemen, a dinner table with a dog, and a kilted man carrying a woman through a garden. A designer might borrow the oval-vignette framing device and the crisp, lightly tinted period figure style.
