Großes Puppentheater : ein lustiges Bilderbuch mit 6 feine, urfidelen Ziehbildern und 10 Original-Lustspielen für die liebe Jugend
An 1897 German picture book published by J. F. Schreiber, offering a comic puppet theatre with six pull-tab figure plates and ten original comedy plays for young readers. The four pictures here show puppet stage scenes in two styles: a bold black-and-white woodcut look with a dark backdrop and wooden stage front, and a full-colour lithograph of a puppet soldier on a stage above a crowd of children. A designer could take the stark silhouette framing and the graphic simplicity of the black-and-white scenes as a model for bold, flat staging.
