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Images and extracts from “Good Words” Magazine collected edition for 1865. The magazine was edited by Norman Magazine, D.D., and illustrated by Robert Barnes, Paul Gray, T. Sulman, Edward Hughes, and others.
The title page has a Victorian border with twigs and grapes and vines engraved by the Dalziel Brothers Ltd.
Title: Good Words
Published by: Strahn & Co.
City: London
Date: 1865
Total items: 3
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
The members of a family should be known to each other.
Two Victorian men in top hats and long-tailed jackets are comforting a distressed-looking boy who wears a cap and a cravat; the three people are dressed fo a [...] [more...] [$]
And then began a murder, grim and great
Hereward the Wake is about to kill his brother, who pleads for mercy but to no avail. The scene is set inside an Anglo-Saxon hall (although the stone pillar in the backgroundmakes it a rather fancy one, perhaps a castle). There’s a discarded shield in the foreground, overturned wine cups and tables, and people lying on the floor. The hall [...] [more...] [$]
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