Joh. Amos Comenii Orbis Sensualium Pictus Trilinguis: Hoc est: Omnium fundamentalium in mundo rerum, & in vita actionum, Pictura & Nomenclatura Latina, Germanica & Hungarica, Cum Titulorum juxta atque Vocabulorum Indice
This is a trilingual Latin, German and Hungarian picture primer by Johann Amos Comenius, printed in 1708 and held by Heidelberg University Library, meant to teach children words through numbered woodcuts of everyday objects and activities. The four pictures show a stage play, a bookshelf with open books, a winter scene of people on ice, and a cobbler at his bench with shoes and tools hanging nearby. A designer could take from them the crude, dense black woodcut line, the numbered labels scattered over each scene, and the plain, schoolbook layout of a teaching image.
