Peter Parley's annual [serial]

Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860, Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Martin, William, 1801-1867 · 1840 · London : Darton and Co · 113 pictures

Peter Parley's Annual is a serial children's annual compiled under the Peter Parley name by Samuel Goodrich, with contributions from John Leighton and William Martin, published in London by Darton and Co in 1840. The pictures are small wood-engraved vignettes of ships, a rider on a rearing horse, armed men under a tree and a sailing boat, giving a designer compact, plainly drawn examples of nineteenth-century narrative engraving with hatched shading and simple outlines.

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