Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago : and some others of later date
Favourites of a nursery of seventy years ago is a 1916 American anthology of nursery rhymes and children's verse, compiled by Edith Emerson Forbes and published in Boston by Houghton, drawing on earlier nursery books for young readers. Its small wood-engraved vignettes show children and adults in rural English-style settings: a boy and girl walking beside a dog, a mother with a child on a bench, children seated in a schoolroom, and a woman talking with a girl in a garden. The bordered scenes, with their hatched shadows and simple outlines, suit a designer seeking period domestic genre imagery or restrained vintage line-cut vignettes.
