Home Words for Heart and Hearth (page 1/2)

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[picture: Front cover for Home Words]

Images from Home Words from heart and Hearth (1888), a church monthly magazine apparently intended to educate the youth of the nation in morals as well as in geography. The illustrations may have been engraved by the Dalziel brother, but I’m not certain; they don’t appear to be signed by an engraver. It’s more likely to me that “Home Words” was set up to compete with “Good Words”—a journal started by the Dalziels.

Title: Home Words for Heart and Hearth

Author: Bullock, Rev. Charles, B.D.

Published by: Home Words Publishing Office

City: London

Date: 1888

Total items: 10

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

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[picture: Front cover for Home Words]

Front cover for Home Words

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Images from Home Words from heart and Hearth (1888), a church monthly magazine apparently intended to educate the youth of the nation in morals as well as in geography. The illustrations may have been engraved by the Dalziel brother, but I’m not certain; they don’t appear to be signed by an engraver. It’s more likely to me that “Home Words” was set up to compete with “Good Words”—a journal started by the Dalziels.


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