The Every-Day Book […] and Table Book; or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days, in Past and Present Times, &c &c by William Hone [Volume III]

William Hone, published by William Pegg & Company (London, UK) · 1827 · 10 pictures

The Every-Day Book, a miscellany of folklore, customs, amusements and history arranged by calendar day, was written by William Hone and published in London in 1827 for a general reading public. Its wood engravings are small, plain and rustic: a cottage interior with figures at a hearth, a tent under tall trees, a fiddler and two dancing women in period dress, and a bonneted woman sitting on a wooden stile. A designer could draw on their clear black linework and simple outdoor and domestic scenes for vintage rural subjects.

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