Child life: a collection of poems
Child life is an 1871 Boston anthology of children's poetry compiled and published by Houghton, Osgood and company, with verse by John Greenleaf Whittier for young readers. The four wood-engraved pictures show a barefoot girl in a pinafore walking past a farmyard, two children peeking around a barn door, a pair of children on a rural road above a town and river, and a girl kneeling in prayer beside a bed. A designer could take from them the soft pastoral scenes, loose hatched shading and rustic settings typical of nineteenth-century American children's book engravings.
