A work on the history of wine and drinking customs of the German people by Dr. Rudolf Schultze of Schwerin. This volume has a beautifully illustrated cover with a color image of a lithograph by W. Loeillot, a Berlin lithographer. The painting pays homage to the grape, which is prominently displayed, and shows a number of people raising their glasses in a toast, as well as a young man seemingly drunk and asleep on the ground. Lithography had been developed in Germany in 1798. An image was drawn on the smooth, polished surface of a limestone block with a crayon that attracted printing ink while the non-color areas were prepared to resist the ink. Paper was placed on the block and the block then run through a press. The image had to be drawn in reverse so that the finished print appeared correct.

Artisans working W. Loeillot in Berlin transferred sketches to lithographic stones, or plates, using a different stone for each color. Printed in black, blue, and yellow, the transparent inks would show through subsequently-printed layers, with two combined colors resulting in a third. For example, yellow overprinted on blue results in green. It was common to hand color prints, before the full development of color lithography, in order to achieve a wider range of distinctive colors.