[AB-book/ manuscript] Herbert Craner - ABC in het Bosch

Handpainted manuscript AB-publication, c. 1942. With letters A to Z each with an image for each letter. With handmade bookmark. Cordbound, with the middle page misbound (K-N-O-L-M-P). 16 x 23.5 cm.

Craner (Essen, Germany, 1918) was an illustrator and advertisement painter. In 1942 he moved to Zaltbommel, in 1951 he emigrated to Canada. *The illustrations have been carefully selected: boom (tree) for B, fazant (pheasant) for F, hert (deer) for H, uil (owl) for U, slak (snail) for S, but how the image with T relates to the letter...?