Bilderbuch ohne Bilder
Bilderbuch ohne Bilder is an 1852 German edition of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy-tale collection, published by Verlag von Carl B. Lorck and aimed at German-speaking readers. The single picture is a halftone portrait of a seated man in profile, wearing a dark coat, cravat and loosely tied bow at the collar, with his hands resting on a ledge. A designer might take from it a restrained, formal portrait treatment, with soft tonal shading against a plain grey backdrop and a sober nineteenth-century sitter pose.
