Charles Lever; an Irish author, began writing the book "Roland Cashel" in 1850 and it published out of London in and around 1858. Now I know it is very unusual of me to go into this much detail but Charles Lever the author was considered an absolute joy in the parlor because of his stories and I found great joy in his jubilant writing. I have found for you a wonderful free Ebook copy of the story below that shows some of the images done by Phiz. Note this image I bring you today is a copy of the inner right cover page of the original London book from whence this delightful illustration comes. The reason it looks very grey is the actual print is a rectangular plate that has horizontal lines going through the the entire image with the book title and such; read on for reasons why. You can see that below. I took the best part of the image out for you.

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Now the interesting story of our Illustrator Phiz. Hablot Knight Browne (12 July 1815 – 8 July 1882) was an English artist, famous as Phiz, illustrator of books by Charles Dikens, Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth.

Roland Cashel By: Charles Lever Illustrations by Phiz. Although this is a copy of the reprint version printed in Boston 1907, It still shows some of the adorable illustrations done by Phiz that have a witty charm to them. The book is worth a peruse because it has wonderful humor and charm.  This free e-book comes to you from PROJECT GUTENBERG www.gutenberg.org
Click on the Ebook button for your book. Enjoy!

I am pulling these wonderful images out of an ancient text from 1634. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of it off hand because as usual my ADD had me wandering off on other projects for several months till I was going through my files to decide what to share with you. I marked the Image from the year it was from and I briefly remember pulling it from the text and cleaning it up for later. On the life of me till I go back through the texts again I wont remember the name as I have many to go through. Anyway do enjoy this wonderful image. I thought it would be incredible for upcoming Halloween projects. eventually I will post more images from this wonderful book. Stay tuned, come back often as I try to post at least two free images daily. Please share the projects you use this for by uploading for our DIY page. Use the contact page. Thanks!

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I also have it here for you in a sepia tone too. I thought it looked really great in both colors and makes it more fun to use. Both files are in PNG format by the way and ready for you to use on whatever!

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Date published was 1886. The card was an Acorn cut out with an adorable little girl holding a puppy on one side and a wood engraving by Hiram Ferguson on the other side which pictured the Acorn stove.  Since the name plate is blank this would make a cute tag, or fall project piece. Please share your projects we would like to see!

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The backside of The Acorn ad which is a wood engraving by Hiram Ferguson. 1886

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I pulled the stove out of the image and cleaned it up here so you can use it on its own if you like for a project.


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Vintage school girl in her fashionable frock with a large bow tied in her hair. This image is from the McCall’s Magazine, May 1909 issue.

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