St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 854 pictures

St. Nicholas was a children's illustrated magazine serial edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and published in New York by Scribner & Co. from 1873, aimed at young readers. Its pictures are small, loose pen-and-ink and wash drawings of children and adults in everyday scenes, with hatching and dense black fills a designer could borrow for vintage editorial line work.

Children's literature