Catechismus, das ist Unterricht in der wahren Christlichen Religion durch Fragen und Antworten : sammt den Zertheilungen einer jeden Antwort und den Zeugnissen der heiligen Schrift : eingetheilt in XLVIII Sonntage durch das ganze Jahr : für die Jugend der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich
A Protestant catechism printed in 1809 by David Gessner for the youth of the city and countryside of Zurich, arranged as forty-eight Sunday lessons of question and answer with scriptural proofs. The single engraving shows a seated woman with a child on her lap and two children approaching her beneath a tree, framed above a German caption quoting Christ's words about the kingdom of heaven belonging to children; a designer might take its plain framed copperplate vignette, its tidy caption band, and its restrained rural setting as a model for simple devotional or instructional imagery.
