First Day of Advent

And the games that we had, oh! they were so nice,
Such sleighing and skating and bowls on the ice!

From ‘The Twigs, or, Christmas at Ruddock Hall’, illustrated by Robert Dudley, published by Castell Brothers.

I thought it would be nice to create an Advent Calendar, by posting an illustration each day from Victorian children’s books from the Tower Project collection I worked on at Cambridge University Library. I hope you like them as much as I do.

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