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An 1880 German alphabet book published by Stilke, with twenty-seven illustrated letters by Paul Friedrich Meyerheim and other artists, made for children learning to read. Each page pairs a large decorative initial with a scene and a short German verse printed beneath it. A designer could take from it the idea of building a whole letter out of a narrative picture, with the pictorial motif set inside the letterform.
