Old Songs. With drawings by E. A. Abbey and Alfred Parsons
An illustrated gift anthology of English traditional songs published by Macmillan in 1889, drawn by the American artist Edwin Austin Abbey and the English landscape painter Alfred Parsons for Victorian parlour readers. Fine pen-and-ink scenes set costumed eighteenth-century couples against hedgerows, orchards and garden benches, with open white grounds and loose foliage hatching useful for line vignettes, headpieces and spot figures.
