Tacky cards and tongue-tied beaux
14th February 2012
This is an early commercial ‘valentine writer’, dating from about 1811, comprising 65 verse Valentines and Answers, from which a tongue-tied Regency beau or belle could select to copy onto the reverse of the frontispiece before giving the engraving, as a Valentine’s Day card, to the object of his or her affection. This one was […]
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