St. Nicholas [serial]

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · 1873 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · 416 pictures

St. Nicholas was a monthly illustrated magazine for children, edited by Mary Mapes Dodge and published by Scribner in New York in 1873. Its pictures are line engravings and pen drawings that mix comic fantasy with outdoor scenes, showing how a designer can use lively figure groupings, woodland motifs and decorative borders for period children's material.

Children's literature