Evelina Fanny Burney Hugh Thomson Macmillan 1903

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Evelina Fanny Burney with an Introduction by Austin Dobson

Evelina or The History Of A Young Lady s Entrance Into The World. Evelina was Burney's first novel, published anonymously in 1778, enjoying a huge success, and even winning the praises of the redoubtable Dr. Johnson. Burney (1752-1840) was one of the few women admitted into the literary circle that included Johnson, Garrick, Burke, and many other brilliant individuals. 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;

• 1903 First Edition With The Thomson Illustrations, Story First Published 1778.
• Publisher Macmillan & Co., London; 1903
• Dark Green Cloth Hardback Lettered And Elaborately Decorated In Art Nouveau Style In Gilt, All Page Edges Gilt, 478 pp plus One Page Publisher's Ad.
• Frontispiece illustrated with wonderful black and white plate of Girl at a Garden Gate with tissue facing. Illustrated in text with another 74 beautiful Hugh Thompson plates.
• Size 190 x 130mm, 800g

Condition: Good – No Dust Jacket, Slight Rubbing To Edges, Cracking To Front Hinge, Rear Hinge Just Starting, Previous Owners Name, Good Copy

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