Poésies et fables à l'usage de la jeunesse
A French verse and fable collection for young readers, compiled by A. Charlier with illustrations by Johann Jakob Kirchhoff, published by Kretzschmar in 1845. The pages pair small wood-engraved vignettes with fable poems set in centred type, and the scenes range from animal fables such as a peacock and hen to domestic and garden scenes of children with adults. A designer could draw on the compact, cross-hatched line work, the framing of each vignette above its verse, and the tidy, dense text blocks.
