St. Nicholas, the beautiful Christmas number. by Louis Rhead

St. Nicholas, the beautiful Christmas number. 1895

louisrhead

poster

colouring book

old-fashioned

hand-lettering

old fashioned

warm-toned

handwritten font

golden font

food photography

poster

warm colour lighting

historical font

This advertisement for the 1895 Christmas issue of *St. Nicholas*, a magazine "for young folks", designed by Louis Rhead, features a vibrant yellow background with a holly branch design. It highlights the magazine's content, including stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Sarah Orne Jewett. The festive colors and the appealing text encourage a subscription to the magazine, emphasizing the value of providing children with enriching literature. The "St. Nicholas" logo itself is a stylized font and appears on several small magazine covers in the lower right corner.