Buntes Abc-Buch. Mit Lese- und Schreib-Uebungen, Geschichten, Denksprüchen, Gedichten, Gebeten und dem Einmaleins. Vierte Auflage. Mit 16 colorirten Bildertafeln. Verlag von Emil Berndt. Leipzig. [1880]. In-8 (21,3 x 13,7 cm). 30 pp., 16 lithographed and stenciled plates: publisher's hardback, plum cloth spine, identically chromolithographed boards, four children in a decor of fruits and flowers in frame (Lith. Anst. J. C. Henzler, Stuttgart). Nice "colorful primer with reading and writing exercises, stories, sayings, poems, prayers and multiplication tables." Pages of letters in Gothic script and Sütterlin letters, white on black background, accompanied by words and small phrases in decreasing type. Alphabetical pigeonhole pages. The superb lithographed and colored plates include one to three gothic initials, accompanied by their minuscule, placed in varied settings with numerous characters; multiple sequences, separated by vegetal or architectural ornaments. Texts of writers, such as Ferdinand Nauman, Friedrich Güll, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hoffmann von Fallersleben, etc. Label of the German bookshop Haar & Steinert 9, rue Jacob in Paris A well preserved copy with very nice colors, corners of the cardboard dulled. Provenance: Anne-Marie de Fabry, with her stamped bookplate.