The tales of Peter Parley about America : with engravings
Peter Parley's Tales of America is a children's history of the United States by Samuel G. Goodrich, published in Boston in 1827 for young readers. The four small woodcut engravings show colonial-era scenes: a figure in a smoky clearing, Native American archers beside a colonist under a tree, soldiers firing through gunsmoke, and a bowman hunting a deer through brush. A designer could take their bold hatching and loose, rural landscapes as models for dramatic outdoor woodcut scenes.
