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Stoke Pogis Churchyard

The churchyard at Stoke Pogis (today written Stoke Poges) was the setting for Thomas Grey’s famous Elegy. [more...] [$]

Bless the Lord O My Soul

A late Victorian over-the-top feat of typography, with five colour printing. [more...] [$]

Title page for Circling the Year

The title page for ‘Circling the Year”for 1870 has a leafy border framing two large flowers at the top, and representations of the year beneath: spring with flowers; summer with warmth from a starry sky; the autumn [...] [more...] [$]

Christmas-tide on the Road

There is a log going on in this colour engraving. In the far background is a church spire with a weather-cock on the top. Nearer, some trees, and a horse and cart or wagon just emerging round the corner of a building. That building is not identified but has snow on the roof and icicles hanging down. But what first catches our attention if in the foreground: [...] [more...] [$]

On the Serpentine

A night-time Winter scene in Victorian London: it’s the Serpentine lake in Hyde Park, and it’s frozen over with ice. People are skating, carrying burning torches to light their way; in the foreground a man sells roast chestnuts; someone is pushing a passenger on a sleigh, warmly wrapped [...] [more...] [$]