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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: 18
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: The Christmas Wagon]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/149-winter-wagon-q67-305x200.jpg "[picture: The Christmas Wagon]")
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Winter Games]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/150-winter-games-q85-285x200.jpg "[picture: Winter Games]")
A group of children are playing, i think on an icy pond; two of them have just fallen over. They are dressed in Victorian middle-class clothing, with caps and coats and striped trousers and boots or sturdy shooes. A girl with a bonnet and skirt looks on. In the background a woman walks a child and a black dog, and we also [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover - The Circling Year]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/000-front-cover-q75-139x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover - The Circling Year]")
Front Cover - The Circling Year
The cover of this book is still a strong blue after over 140 years, and the gold is (of course) still gold. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Decorated Initial letter C with holly]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/136v-christmas-initial-letter-c-q75-118x200.jpg "[picture: Decorated Initial letter C with holly]")
Decorated Initial letter C with holly
A black and white engraved letter C with chevrons, and intertwined with holly laden with berries. [more...] [$]
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