oldbookillustrations:

In the time of my childhood ‘t was like a sweet dream,
To sit in the roses and hear the bird’s song.

H. Warren, from Poetry and pictures from Thomas Moore, London, 1858.

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oldbookillustrations:

Front cover from The frog who would a wooing go, published by Brown, Taggard & Chase, Boston, circa 1858.

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