Old English Cuts and Illustrations In Dick Donovan's "The Mystic

Old English Cuts and Illustrations In Dick Donovan's "The MysticBefore the invention of photography, in the days when illustrated books were inordinately costly, one means of satisfying the universal human desire for pictures was the so called "catch penny." This was an engraved sheet of paper, sometimes filled with illustrations, sometimes with verse, sometimes with both, but hawked on the streets of London for a penny. Millions of these broadsides must have been printed in the 18th century, but most of them have

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