Erstes Buch für Kinder oder ABC- und Lesebuch : mit ill. Kupfern
A German children's primer and alphabet reader, published in 1844 by Hinrichs and written by Ernst Hold, illustrated with hand-coloured copperplate engravings. The pictures are small, framed animal scenes arranged in stacked panels, showing goats, cattle, a horse, an elephant with a rider, a swan, a dog, a hive and flamingos against simple landscapes. A designer could take from them the tidy, repeated panel grid and the naive, flat colouring typical of early nineteenth-century natural history teaching plates.
