Das Lied an die Freude : aus dem Leben eines deutschen Dichters ; eine Erzählung für die reifere Jugend und das Volk ; mit 1 Titelkupfer
A German youth novella of 1862 by Katharina Diez, published by Gebrüder Scheitlin, telling a story from a German poet's life for older young readers and the general public. Its single frontispiece engraving shows a tailcoated gentleman in a long coat and breeches standing with an outstretched arm while a younger man kneels on a grassy bank beside a stream, with a hat fallen in the foreground; the cross-hatched linework and restrained period costume suggest a designer might borrow its quiet, staged gesture for historical narrative scenes.
