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The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends (page 1/2)

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Images from The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends by George Wharton Edwards (New York, 1914). I bought this book in a small shop in Peterborough, Ontario.

The Forest of Arden is a travelogue, an early form of blog.

Title: The Forest of Arden With Some of its Legends

Author: Edwards, George Wharton

Published by: Frederick A. Stokes Company

City: New York

Date: 1914

Total items: 9

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

Some sample images

[picture: Maid in the Forest]

Maid in the Forest

A young lady, a girl, sits on a thick root of an ancient mossy tree, sewing or knitting perhaps. She has a scarf over her hair and wears a green dress and shoes. [more...] [$]

[picture: Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.]

Rosalind. In an Old Monastery Garden.

This painting of a young lady, Rosalind, in a (sketched) garden shows the young woman wearing brown dress, cloak and boots, and looking very much a product of 1914. She has red lips. [more...] [$]

[picture: A Rainy Sunday]

A Rainy Sunday

A boy and a girl walk happily arm in arm under the shelter of an umbrella; the boy carries small bag and wears a cap; the giel wears dress and bonnet; both children wear clocgs and dark socks on their feet. [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and Cathedral]

Frontispiece: Dinant, Showing Old Castle and Cathedral

The building with the elongated dome structure is the main church, the thirteenth century Notre Dame de Dinant. [more...] [$]

[picture: The Ruins of Montaigle]

The Ruins of Montaigle

Montaigle Castle, opening the chapter “De La Marck, the Wild Boar of the Ardennes.” [more...] [$]


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