Wayside Pictures, Hymns, and Poems ... With a portrait of the author

HARRIS, John - a Cornish Miner · 1874 · 23 pictures

Wayside Pictures, Hymns, and Poems is an 1874 London collection of devotional and rural verse by John Harris, a Cornish miner who wrote for a popular religious readership. The plates are wood-engraved drop initials wrapped in briar roses, lilies, harebells and blackberry canes, with hatched or stippled letterforms — usable as decorative capitals, floral spot ornaments, or traced line motifs.

British Library · HMNTS 11650.h.6. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)