St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 323 pictures

St. Nicholas was an American illustrated magazine for children, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and published in New York by Scribner in 1873, serialising stories, verse and pictures for young readers. Its pictures are pen and ink wood engravings in varied scenes: a figure in a turban gesturing in an arched frame, boys playing a ball game on a snowy shore, a child lying on the floor reading, and a village scene with a girl at a fence and a Mother Goose rhyme beneath. A designer might draw on their loose, sketchy line and the vignette layouts framing small scenes on the page.

Children's literature

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