Eine schöne Historie von König Apollonius, wie er von seinem Lande vertrieben, Schiffbruch und macherlei Unglück erlitten und doch endlich glücklich wieder in sein Land gekommen ist
A nineteenth-century German chapbook printed and published by Heinrich Ludwig Brönner in 1846, telling the story of King Apollonius of Tyre for a popular readership. Its woodcut-style illustrations show a crowd receiving grain from a merchant, a king kneeling beside a wooden coffin on a shore, a bearded man reaching toward a reclining woman in a ship's cabin, and a fisherman with a net pole facing a kneeling bearded man by the water. The pictures are simple outline woodcuts with hatched shading and strong figure gestures, useful for designers studying narrative line-cut vernacular illustration.
