Mansfield Park
( Hugh THOMSON ) AUSTEN, Jane
Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. [Second Impression].
BRIGHT, CRISP COPY WITH HUGH THOMSON ILLUSTRATIONS
Published: Macmillan, 1898
Stock code: 31633
Price: £160.00
8vo., Second Impression thus, with frontispiece (original tissue guard present) and 39 fine engraved plates, small neat contemporary signature on front free endpaper; original burgundy decorative cloth, upper board and backstrip elaborately blocked and lettered in blind, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy.
Nice copy in publisher's wholly unrestored period binding, enhanced by Thomson's inimitable illustrations. One of the great book illustrators of the period, Thomson completed all six Austen novels at the height of his powers. First published in the previous year. Gilson E88; Spielmann & Jerrold, 21 (both recording the first edition thus).
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