Für mein kleines Völklein : Geschichten und Märchen ; mit 8 colorirten Bildern
A German children's storybook of tales and fairy stories, illustrated by August Corrodi and published by Verlag von Schmidt & Spring in 1856 for young readers, with eight hand-coloured plates. The coloured prints show rural village life in soft, muted watercolour tones: a boy resting by a stone doorway beside a mill, a family gathered around a violin-playing man, a red-capped boy in striped trousers, and a woman and child calling at a snowy cottage window. Designers might borrow the gentle narrative staging, the layered rustic backgrounds and the restrained palette of mid-nineteenth-century children's book colour.
