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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: 13
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
A group of children are playing, i think on an icy pond; two of them have just fallen over. They are dressed in Victorian middle-class clothing, with caps and coats and striped trousers and boots or sturdy shooes. A girl with a bonnet and skirt looks on. In the background a woman walks a child and a black dog, and we also [...] [more...] [$]
Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized
This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds the titlepage of the book. [more...] [$]
Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame
Today people looking at this circular wreath design stamped in gold would think first of Christmas: there’s holly and ivy and what could pass for ornaments. But if you look more closely it represents the whole year, [...] [more...] [$]
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.
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