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Idyllic Pictures. Drawn by Barnes, Miss E. Edwards, P. Gray, Houghton, R. P. Leitch, Pinwell, Sandys, Small, G. Thomas, etc

BARNES, Robert - Artist, EDWARDS, Mary Ellen., GRAY, Paul., HOUGHTON, Arthur Boyd., LEITCH, Richard Pettigrew., PINWELL, George John., SANDYS, Frederick., SMALL, William - Artist, THOMAS, George Housman. · 1867 · 52 pictures

An 1867 London gift anthology of sentimental verse illustrated by the leading wood-engraving designers of the English 1860s — Robert Barnes, Mary Ellen Edwards, Paul Gray, Arthur Boyd Houghton, Pinwell, Sandys and Small — issued for middle-class parlour readers. Full-page engravings show bedsides, cottage windows and staircases, with caption couplets, dense cross-hatching, deep blacks and heavy drapery useful for period figures and interiors.

British Library · HMNTS 11651.h.8. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)