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CRANFORD SERIES; THOMSON, Hugh (illustrator)

Two volumes in original dust-jackets.

Two volumes in original dust-jackets.

The Story of Rosina and other Verses; The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other poems of the XVIII Century

Stock Code 100879

London Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. 1892-1895

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Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) was an Irish illustrator famous for his illustrations of works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J.M. Barrie, amongst others.

First editions; 2 volumes, 8vo (196 x 139 mm, 7¾ x 5½ in); Rosina: 49 line drawings by Hugh Thomson (comprising frontispiece, 32 full-page plates, in-text illustrations, head-pieces, tail-pieces), light scattered spotting; Beau Brocade: 50 line drawings by Hugh Thomson (comprising frontispiece, 27 full-page engraved plates, in-text illustrations, head-pieces, tail-pieces), light scattered spotting; both volumes: publisher's pictorial gilt cloth, top edges gilt, others uncut, dust-jackets, extremities slightly bumped, dust-jackets split along joints with minor loss at extremities, very good overall.

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