The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language
An anthology of classic English stories and poems for children, edited by Horace Scudder and published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin in 1910. The four wood-engraved pictures are black-and-white scenes of a tree-lined countryside, a crowded street with a woman in a long gown beneath an umbrella, a candlelit room where a crowned figure peers from a bed, and a barefoot boy hiding in undergrowth; their dense hatching and crisp outlines suit designers wanting vintage narrative line work.
