Popular Tales ... Illustrated by ... C. Hammond. With an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie
An 1895 Macmillan reissue of Maria Edgeworth's Popular Tales, moral stories written for young and general readers in 1804, with an introduction by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and forty-one line illustrations by Chris Hammond. The drawings are pen-and-ink scenes of two or three figures talking in parlours, doorways and cottage gardens, dressed in high-waisted gowns, tailcoats and breeches, with captions set below in quoted dialogue; useful for period costume, gesture and domestic interiors.
