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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: 9
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/000-round-holly-mistletoe-ornaments-gold-xmas-wreath-q75-199x200.jpg "[picture: Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame]")
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...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover - The Circling Year]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/000-front-cover-q75-139x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover - The Circling Year]")
Front Cover - The Circling Year
The cover of this book is still a strong blue after over 140 years, and the gold is (of course) still gold. [more...] [$]
![[picture: On the Serpentine]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/147-on-the-serpentine-q70-264x200.jpg "[picture: 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 skatingcarrying 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...] [$]
![[picture: Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/000-titlepage-border-letter-q75-155x200.jpg "[picture: Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized]")
Full-page holly and ivy border, US Letter sized
This leafy border features ivy with some holly thwoen in for good measure: it’d be great at Christmas but could be used at other times too. It surrounds the titlepage of the book. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Title page for Circling the Year]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/000-titlepage-q75-125x200.jpg "[picture: Title page for Circling the Year]")
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...] [$]
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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