Elastic Ariel and Monsieur Mercury, c.1840s Hand-colored Engraving handmade wooden signb 8 full-color plates and 8

8 full-color plates and 8 black and white

This one I'd be especially glad to keep for myself

but which I found too sweet to leave behind

and to my eye beautifully merges a mid-century elegance with a more folky sensibility

the dealer I bought them from had purchased a body of work by Gaylor and his wife Adelaide Lawson from a one time neighbor of the couple on Long Island

Elastic Ariel and Monsieur Mercury, c.1840s Hand-colored Engraving handmade wooden signb 8 full-color plates and 8A small thing, which was clearly extracted from a 19th century scrapbook, but which I find just wonderful. I believe the questions along the bottom are riddles, and would guess the answers begin with the letters "T" and "U," printed at upper right which would also imply that there was once a whole alphabet's worth. Terrific block printed color, and I sure love their balletic postures and starry wands! An image search on this one turns up nothing, so