The young envelope-makers
The Young Envelope-Makers is a children's story by Sarah Maria Fry, published in Philadelphia in 1850 by the American Sunday-School Union for young readers. Its four wood-engraved pictures show women and girls in dark shawls, bonnets and long skirts in a village setting, with some pages hand-coloured in blue and yellow. A designer could take from them the restrained costume details, the cottage and church backdrops, and the small blocks of flat colour laid over fine black line.
