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By the Sea

A Victorian sea-side outing, with children palying on the beach, a nanny or mother standing by them holding a boook, and, in the backgorund, a man, perhaps their father, with a top hat and cane. The children are making a sand-castle. They are all fully dressed, [...] [more...] [$]

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...] [$]

For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow

This full-page illustration is enclosed in a green and gold border with gold stalks of wheat around an engraving of a woman in old-fashioned clothing harvesting wheat. Underneath the engraving in black and gold is the [...] [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...] [$]

Bless the Lord O My Soul

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