Author: Helen Allingham, Marcus B. Huish
Title: Happy England
Description: London, Adam & Charles Black, 1909. Cloth. An attractive copy of this volume comprising beautiful colour plates, memoirs, and descriptions of the English countryside. A later, enlarged issue of this volume, comprising more illustrations of the beautiful English countryside, painted by Helen Allingham and completed with memoirs and descriptions by Marcus B. Huish making this the preferred edition. Helen Allingham was a British watercolourist and illustrator of the Victorian era, who initially painted under the name "H. Paterson." She was one of the only women at the time who could make a living off painting, and her art was very remarkable. Vincent Van Gogh was inspired by one of her works, The Graphic. Complete with frontispiece and seventy-nine colour illustrations. In the publisher's original burgundy cloth binding, with decorative illustrations to front board and spine and titles stamped in gilt to front board and spine. Top edge painted in gilt. Externally, very attractive with slight bumping to head and tail of spine and extremities. Spine has slightly faded. Internally, a number of plates is disbound, but binding is firm otherwise. Offsetting to endpapers as usual due to the type of paper. Minor faint scattered spotting to the occasional page. Complete with frontispiece and seventy-nine colour illustrations. Very Good . Ill.: Helen Allingham. Very Good .

Keywords: England countryside illustration colour countryside Helen Allingham


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