Festival of Song: a series of Evenings with the Poets. Prepared by the author of “Salad for the Solitary” ... (F. Saunders). With ... pictures by Members of the National Academy of Design. Engraved by Bobbett and Hooper
A gift anthology of English and American poetry compiled by Frederick Saunders in New York, 1866, illustrated by members of the National Academy of Design and cut on wood by Bobbett and Hooper for parlour readers. The wood engravings are arch-topped landscape vignettes trees, moonlit rivers, shepherds, cottages built from dense hatching, useful for silhouetted foliage, framing devices and soft grey tonal fills.
