Pleasing and instructive stories for young children
Pleasing and Instructive Stories for Young Children is a juvenile story collection written by Mary Hughs and published in Philadelphia by T. T. Ash in 1800, aimed at young American readers. Its small engravings show genteel Regency-era women and children in gardens, parlours and village settings, with a simple, didactic tone. A designer might take from them the clean, decorative line work of early nineteenth-century vignettes, with framed captions, sparse shading, and bordered compositions suited to period-styled layouts.
