The poetical works of Alice and Phbe Cary : with a memorial of their lives
A collected poetry volume by American sisters Alice and Phoebe Cary, published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. in 1881, with a memorial of their lives, aimed at general readers of American verse. The pictures are small decorative headpieces and ornamental panels: carved-looking foliage scrolls framing a central human or grotesque face, rendered in fine black linework on cream paper. A designer could take from them a template for symmetrical ornament, with a face at the centre flanked by curling acanthus-like leaves for a border or masthead.
