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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: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[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...] [$]
![[picture: Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/000-round-holly-mistletoe-ornaments-gold-xmas-wreath-q75-199x200.jpg "[picture: Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame]")
Vintage gold circular leaf border or frame
Today people looking at this circular wreath design stamped in gold would think first of Christmas: there’s holly and ivy and what could pass for ornaments. But if you look more closely it represents the whole year, [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The Village Blacksmith]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/106-the-village-blacksmith-q67-138x200.jpg "[picture: The Village Blacksmith]")
The blacksmith stands wearing his boiler suit; he has a hammer in one upraised hand ready to strike hot metal on his anvil; perhaps he is making a horseshoe or maybe it’s a manacle for a slave. In the background his apprentice keeps the fire going; in the foreground, standing next to a mighty tree whose branches seem to support the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Stoke Pogis Churchyard]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/116-stoke-pogis-churchyard-q75-280x200.jpg "[picture: Stoke Pogis Churchyard]")
![[picture: For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/CirclingTheYear-1870/wm/big/116-gleaning-q70-143x200.jpg "[picture: For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow]")
For the stranger, the fatherless, the widow
This full-page illustration is enclosed in a green and gold border with gold stalks of wheat around an engraving of a woman in old-fashioned clothing harvesting wheat. Underneath the engraving in black and gold is the [...] [more...] [$]
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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