The old oak tree
A children's picture book published in London by Dean & Son in 1881, written by Miss Moncrieff for young readers. Its pictures are small rust-red line engravings of countryside scenes: an old oak by a pond, a heron among bulrushes, and rabbits in long grass, with text running beside them. A designer might borrow the loose hatched line work and the warm single-ink palette for rural or nostalgic layouts.
