More Precious than Gold
A short moral tale by Jennie Chappell, published in London in 1889 for young readers and Sunday-school prize markets. Its 44 illustrations are small wood-engraved landscape vignettes and headpieces — massed foliage, reedy ponds, a field gate, a church tower across flat meadows — drawn in fine hatched line with open sky, usable as chapter headers, spot ornaments, or banner-shaped framing devices.
