Der illustrirte Kinderfreund oder Erstes ABC-, Lese- und Denkbuch : Die Kinderwelt mit ihren Freuden, die Menschen mit ihren Beschäftigungen, die Thiere und ihre Lebensweisen : in Belehrungen und Erzählungen einer Mutter durch Wort und Bild
A German illustrated primer and reader for children, compiled by Louis Thomas and published by Otto Spamer in 1852, combining an alphabet, reading and thinking exercises with stories told by a mother about children's play, human occupations, and animal habits. The woodcuts show rural life in a plain, legible line style: a woman washing at a riverbank beside a wooden fence, a figure in a broad hat working with a hand scythe in a field of cut grain, a black cat sitting in a hedged garden, and a rider herding cattle through a shallow stream, useful for designers wanting simple, clear, nineteenth-century rural scenes.
