Items taken from Peter Parley’s Annual (1856) (results page 1)

Front cover in red and goldPeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

The front cover of this 1856 children’s book seems to have had something happen to it as some point to wear the gold off the bottom half.

Keywords: book covers, front covers, red, gold, colour

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Added: 2025-07-06

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The Wassail BowlPeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

A bearded man in a tall hat and cravat, eighteenth or early nineteenth century leggings, and with a garland round his head reclines, one hand raised. Nearby, in the undergrowth and sitting on a rock, [...]

Keywords: christmas, wassail, people, december, winter, bowls, beards, bare feet, religion, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2013-12-14

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Victorian Carol SingersPeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

Three Victorian men are stnading singing Christmas songs; one of them plays the harp. A boy watches, and other figures stand in the background. The dress is from the early Victorian era. Jolly be our [...]

Keywords: christmas, xmas, music, people, singing, wassail, costumes, victorian england, victorian costumes, victoriana, greyscale

Places shown: England

Added: 2013-12-12

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The Counsel (a Scotch Terrier)Peter Parley’s Annual (1856)

A dog, a Scottish Terrier we are told, stands upright on hind feet, wearing a long coat with a high collar and a dark trilby hat with a bow in its ribbon, and perhaps a handkerchief or scarf over the [...]

Keywords: dogs, animals, anthro, people, lawyers, costumes, lanterns, hats, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-05

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Tortured with feet to the firePeter Parley’s Annual (1856)

[...] the first stranger reappeared, and beckoning with his finger, the party passed through the door to a little vestibule, the further end of which was closed by a heavy dark-red curtain; upon this [...]

Keywords: torture, stocks, people, men, prisons, interiors, medieval, bare feet, punishments, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2025-07-04

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