King Winter
King Winter is a c.1859 Hamburg picture book by Gustav W. Seitz, both illustrator and publisher, written as a rhyming children's tale of winter personified. Its pages are narrow vertical strips of hand-coloured engraving, each with a verse set above a round roundel scene. A designer could take the tinted woodcut-like line work, the framed oval vignettes, and the stiff, theatrical figure poses as a model for old German toy-book layouts.
