1, 2, buckle my shoe
A children's counting rhyme book by Walter Crane, published in London by George Routledge & Sons in 1869, for young readers learning numbers. Each page pairs a number couplet with a colour lithograph of domestic scenes: a dining room with servants, a mother and child by a fireplace, and maids meeting soldiers in a corridor. A designer could take the flat, outlined figures, bold red and green palette, and tidy framing of numerals within the scene.
