Illustrated Library of favorite Song. Based upon folk songs. ... With an introduction, and edited by J. G. Holland ... Illustrated with ... engravings, ... after designs by Church, Johnson, etc
An 1873 American song anthology edited by Josiah Gilbert Holland, gathering folk songs and popular verse with wood engravings after Frederic Church, Robert Johnson and other designers, issued for middle-class parlour readers. The 121 plates and vignettes run from cottage-door family scenes and snowbound travellers to armoured figures on coastal cliffs, many in half-round, circular or open-edged formats useful as headpieces and spot illustrations.
