Neues Märchenbuch : eine Auswahl von 30 der schönsten Märchen für die Jugend ; mit 12 Farbdruckbildern nach Original-Aquarellen
Neues Märchenbuch is a German collection of thirty fairy tales for young readers, illustrated by Heinrich Leutemann with twelve colour prints made from original watercolours and published by Loewe in 1888. The four pictures show chromolithographs of fairy-tale scenes: an old woman with two children before a gingerbread-covered cottage, a young man in a feathered cap beside a sleeping woman in a canopy bed, a cat among rabbits in a wheat field, and a richly dressed hunter bargaining with a bearded old man. Designers could take their bold flat colour, tight outlines and decorative foliage as a model for storybook layouts.
