The queen's body-guard. A story of American life for girls
A Philadelphia children's story from 1883 by Margaret Thomson Janvier, set in American life and written for girls, published by Porter & Coates. Its wood-engraved plates show domestic interiors, a wagon in woodland, a girl reading at a desk in a colour plate, and a boy vaulting a fence chased by dogs, giving a designer clear period scenes of 19th-century American domestic and rural life with strong figure groupings and diagonal action.
