König Nußknacker und der arme Reinhold : ein Kindermährchen in Bildern
A German children's picture book from 1898 by Heinrich Hoffmann, published by Rütten & Loening, retelling the Nutcracker story as a fairy tale in pictures with rhymed verse beneath each scene. The hand-coloured lithographs show a stiff, caricatured King Nutcracker in uniform, with a crowd of children and townsfolk in old German streets, and a designer might take their bold outlines, flat colour blocks and exaggerated character poses as models for playful storybook layouts.
