Das Kind und seine kleinen Freunde : unzerreißbares Leinwand-Bilderbuch
A linen-backed picture book of German nursery rhymes printed by Geissler in 1865 for young children, its pages cut into a single-scene plate per verse. The hand-coloured woodcut-style pictures show children with animals, a bird in a cage, a cat, a fishbowl and a fisherman, each captioned with short rhyming lines. A designer could take the simple outlined figures, flat bright colour and compact vignette layouts used to pair an image with a few lines of text.
