Zwey hüpsche nüwe Lieder, zuo lob und ehren dem edlen Bären von Bern : das erst in der wyss, wie das Lobgsang Zachane
A 1545 printed songbook of two new German songs in praise of the Bear of Bern, issued by the printer Mathias Apiarius and attributed to Benedict Gletting, aimed at readers who sang the verses to a known tune. The single picture is a woodcut of a standing bear, rendered with dense hatching and a rough outline, framed within a title page set in black-letter type. A designer could take from it the compact, heraldic effect of a single animal figure set on a blank field beside dense text.
