Showing posts with label 1886. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1886. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 5, 2020

“It Is Pleasant to Be Beautiful,” Said the Porcupine (1886)

“Rabbit and Porcupine,” Illustrated by Pruett Share. Laura E. Richards, ed., Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet: Furry and Feathery Pets and How They Live (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886), 145. 

Thursday, December 14, 2017

Fighting the Fire with Snowballs (1886)

Charles Barnard, “The Great Snowball Fight,” Illustrated by George Inness, Jr., St. Nicholas 13 (March 1886): 345.

Monday, December 11, 2017

The Same Warmth Which Wakes Him Wakes All the Insects on Which He Feeds (1886)

Laura E. Richards, ed., “In Winter Time,” Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet; or, Furry and Feathery Pets, and How They Live. (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1886), 25.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

And There Was a War in Heaven (1886)

Adolphe Napoléon Didron, translated from the French by E.J. Millington, completed with additions and appendices by Margaret Stokes, “St. Michael and the Dragon,” Christian Iconography;or the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. Vol II. The Trinity: Angels: Devils: Death: The Soul: The Christian Scheme: Appendices (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886), 185.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

Both Start like Lightning from the Fist (1886)

E.B. Michell, “Modern Falconry,” Illustrated by George E. Lodge, The English Illustrated Magazine 3 (July 1886): 661.

Friday, June 26, 2015

You Are in Disgrace You Know, and in the Corner You Must Go (1886)

Lizzie Lawson and Robert Ellice Mack, Christmas Roses (London: Griffith, Farran and Company, 1886), 18.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Kiss My Fluffy Face, Said the Owl (1886)

Juliana Horatia Ewing. Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Lob-Lie-By-The-Fire, The Brownies and Other Tales. (Boston: Robert Brothers, 1886). 

Thursday, December 5, 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Body Wire (1886)

Frank B. Webster. "Practical Taxidermy." Ornithologist and Oölogist 11. (January 1886).

Saturday, March 9, 2013

răbbĭts prėtty (1886)

rabbits pretty, two rabbits eat
Ellen M. Cyr. The Interstate Primer and First Reader. (Chicago: The Interstate Publishing Company, 1886).

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Three Christmas Trees (1886)

Three Christmas Trees
Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Lob Lie-by-the-fire: The Brownies and Other Tales. 

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Children at Play (1886)

"Children at Play," drawn by W. J. Hennessy from the new illustrated edition of "Maud Miller" by John G. Whittier
Our Young Folks: An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. 2 (December 1866).

Saturday, February 18, 2012

*P*eeped In It (1886)

Kate Greenway. A Apple Pie. (London: Frederick Warnie and Company, Ltd., 1886).