König Nobel und sein Reich : komische Bilder aus dem Thierleben
A German illustrated picture-book of comic animal scenes, published in 1890 by an unidentified publisher and credited to Elisabeth Ebeling and Wilhelm Schäfer, apparently for children. Its pages are narrow vertical panels, each with a rhymed verse set above or below a framed scene of animals in human clothing. A designer might take its lively anthropomorphic characters, decorative floral borders and tall strip layout as models for whimsical packaging or editorial spot illustration.
