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Valentine Verses; or, Lines of truth, love, and virtue. [With plates, lithographed by the author

COBBOLD, Richard. · 1827 · E. Shalders · 104 pictures

Valentine Verses, a volume of sentimental and moral poems by the Suffolk clergyman Richard Cobbold, printed by E. Shalders in 1827 for provincial English readers, with plates the author drew and lithographed himself. The amateur pen-and-ink scenes use loose parallel hatching for cloud, water and foliage, giving usable stock of cottage doorways, rowing boats, seated figures under trees and open skies.

British Library · HMNTS 993.l.11. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)