On a candlestick
This is an 1872 American children's story collection, 'On a Candlestick', by Frances Lee and Aunt Julia, published in New York by Hunt & Eaton for young readers. The four wood-engraved pictures show indoor domestic scenes: a seated young woman beside a bookcase, a girl handing a potted plant to a woman in a long skirt, a figure lying on a rug near a candlestick, and a woman opening a door to children in an oval frame lit by lamps and candles, with a cat at her feet, which suggests designers can borrow Victorian interior staging, period dress and candlelit framing.
