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![[picture: Front Cover - The Circling Year]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/tn/000-front-cover-q83-347x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover - The Circling Year]")
Pictures from The Circling Year for 1870, which took illustrations and articles from two magazines, The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home.
There are a mixture of hand-tinted lithographs, chromos, and hand-coloured engravings.
I bought this book at Alphabet Bookshop in Port Colborne, Ontario, in September 2017.
Title: The Circling Year
Published by: The Religious Tract Society
City: London
Date: 1870
Total items: 17
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/148-letter-c-with-snow-and-holly-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow]")
Decorative initial letter C with holly and icicles and snow
A decorative drop cap letter C for Christmas, with a sprig of holly and snow on the C and icicles hanging down, engraved so it will reproduce at any size. [more...] [$]
![[picture: A Hole in the Sack]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/104-hole-in-the-sack-q75-138x200.jpg "[picture: A Hole in the Sack]")
![[picture: The Village Blacksmith]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/106-the-village-blacksmith-q67-138x200.jpg "[picture: The Village Blacksmith]")
The blacksmith stands wearing his boiler suit; he has a hammer in one upraised hand ready to strike hot metal on his anvil; perhaps he is making a horseshoe or maybe it’s a manacle for a slave. In the background his apprentice keeps the fire going; in the foreground, standing next to a mighty tree whose branches seem to support the [...] [more...] [$]
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![[picture: Bless the Lord O My Soul]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/161a-bless-the-lord-q75-140x200.jpg "[picture: Bless the Lord O My Soul]")
![[picture: Stoke Pogis Churchyard]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/116-stoke-pogis-churchyard-q75-280x200.jpg "[picture: Stoke Pogis Churchyard]")
