Days With Sir Roger De Coverley Spectator Hugh Thompson 1892

Description

Days With Sir Roger De Coverley reprint from the Spectator

Sir Roger de Coverley was the name of a character in The Spectator (1711). An English squire of Queen Anne's reign, Sir Roger exemplified the values of an old country gentleman, and was portrayed as lovable but somewhat ridiculous ('rather beloved than esteemed') (Spectator no. 2), making his Tory politics seem harmless but silly. He was said to be the grandson of the man who invented the dance. Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) was an Irish-born artist who first rose to prominence with his series of drawings of 18th century ballads and stories in The English Illustrated Magazine, 1883. An instinctive artist with little formal training, he became one of the most popular illustrators of his day, and his idyllic world of stage-coaches, sedan chairs, and English scenes found their way into the novels of Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Mrs. Gaskell and Charles Reade, as well as scores of popular colour-plate books in the first fifteen years of the twentieth century

Features;

• Third Edition
• Publisher Macmillan & Co., London; 1892
• Green Cloth Hardback, 158 pp
• Frontispiece illustrated with wonderful black and white plate of "Dancing" with tissue facing. Illustrated in text with another 57 beautiful Hugh Thompson plates.
• Size 190 x 130mm, 500g

Condition: Good – No Dust Jacket, Front Hinge Starting To Crack, No Inscriptions, Good Copy

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