Das Kind und seine liebsten Thiere : Bilder und Verse
A German picture book of 1854 by Gustav Süs, published by Meinhold, for children, pairing hand-coloured illustrations of animals with rhyming verses under each scene. The pages show a cow with a child, cats and birds beside a dovecote, goslings following a girl, and a fox among hens, with the verse set in blackletter type. A designer might take the simple, naive colour washes and the framed text panels with vine-leaf borders as a model for storybook layout.
