Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago; and some others of later date
A 1916 Boston anthology compiled by Edith Emerson Forbes, gathering nursery rhymes and children's favourites from about seventy years earlier, held by the New York Public Library. Its pictures are small black-and-white wood engravings of domestic and rural scenes: a mother sewing beside a child with a doll and a cottage, children walking past a dog in a churchyard, an old man in an armchair, and a girl pointing at a crying boy. A designer might borrow their plain line hatching, octagonal framing and simple period costume for vintage storybook layouts.
