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Austin Dobson - The Story of Rosina

Title: The Story of Rosina
Description: London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful collection of poetry from Austin Dobson, illustrated throughout by Hugh Thomson. The beautiful first edition this volume of verses from poet and essayist Austin Dobson, illustrated throughout with the vignette illustrations of Hugh Thomson.Irish illustrator Thomson was best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors including Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and J. M. Barrie. Thomson inaugurated the 'Cranford School' of illustration with the publication of his 1891 Macmillan edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Cranford&apos.With the armorial bookplate of Sir Philip Manfield, a Northampton based shoe manufacturer, to the front pastedown. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding with gilt detailing. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with boards bright. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright with only the odd light spot. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Hugh Thomson. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: rosina hugh thomson Henry Austin Dobson Sir Philip Manfield hugh thomson Hugh Thomson

Price: GBP 135.00 = appr. US$ 192.78 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 817F16

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