Christmas card featuring a wood-engraving design by Paynter of a goblin man proffering forbidden fruit (an illustration from Goblin Market).
£30 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd
Illustrating Christina Rossetti’s famous poem, reminiscent of this passage: “Come buy, come buy: Our grapes fresh from the vine, Pomegranates full and fine… Sweet to tongue and sound to eye; Come buy, come buy…” Near fine Christmas card by one of the UK’s leading wood-engravers.
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