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First Edition, 2nd impression. Hard cover, crown 8 vo., in publisher's original ruby red cloth with gilt pictorial decoration, beveled edged boards, 89 pp., No dust jacket present. Top edge gilt and others untrimmed. Printed at the Chiswick Press, London. CONDITION: Near Fine. The exterior remains bright and fresh. The Interior has very light scattered foxing affecting frontis tissue guard and to pastedowns. However, most pages are bright and binding is tight. A pictorial bookplate appears on the front pastedown. Literature: Francis Edwin Murray (1900) No. X, p14. **POET Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921) did not begin his poetry career until the 1860's, but made a splash with critics, numbering Trollope and George Eliot among his admirers. His use of French verse forms struck a chord. He would go on to write a number of well-regarded biographies of English artists and writers in the 1880's.**Irish ARTIST HUGH THOMSON (1860-1920) is considered among the top tier of Victorian book illustrators. He arrived in London after working at publishers Marcus Ward and Company, Belfast where he trained under the artist John Vinycomb, M.R.I.A. He would go on to illustrate over 200 books, among them works by Dickens, Jane Austen and George Eliot, Thackeray and J.M. Barrie. His work on the design for Mrs. Gaskell's 1891 edition of "Cranford" gave this style of "extra" decorated crown 8vo gift book it's name, and there followed a number of derivative editions by other publishers.
Ref: ILLDB 8153
$100.00