Schweizerischer Kinderfreund : ein Lesebuch für Bürger- und Volksschulen
A Swiss German reader for citizen and village schoolchildren, written by Johannes Schulthess and published in 1808 by Schulthess. The single oval engraving shows two seated boys in a garden beside a sign carrying a long inscription, while a standing boy gestures toward it. A designer could take the tight oval vignette framing and the leafy, hatched foliage as a model for early nineteenth-century educational book frontispieces.
