A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath. New Edition revised with new Preface and One Hundred Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
- 1901
1901. New York: Macmillan and Co., 1900.
8vo, xxxii; 276; [4]pp. ads. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original rose cloth with decorative front cover and backstrip richly gilt. Top edge gilt. Slight wear at spine ends. A very good copy just slightly faded, in a lovely trade binding. Bookplate of Meta G. Knight.
ß First edition, preceding the London 1901 edition often called the "first".. Influenced by Randolph Caldecott and the novels of Thackeray, Thomson [1860-1920] created an idyllic world of stage coaches, sedan chars, feasts and port wine... From the late 1880s he was continually in demand for the novels of Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Mrs. Gaskell, Charles Reade and others as well as for contemporaries like J.M. Barrie and Austin Dobson (Houfe, p. 479).
8vo, xxxii; 276; [4]pp. ads. With illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Original rose cloth with decorative front cover and backstrip richly gilt. Top edge gilt. Slight wear at spine ends. A very good copy just slightly faded, in a lovely trade binding. Bookplate of Meta G. Knight.
ß First edition, preceding the London 1901 edition often called the "first".. Influenced by Randolph Caldecott and the novels of Thackeray, Thomson [1860-1920] created an idyllic world of stage coaches, sedan chars, feasts and port wine... From the late 1880s he was continually in demand for the novels of Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Mrs. Gaskell, Charles Reade and others as well as for contemporaries like J.M. Barrie and Austin Dobson (Houfe, p. 479).
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Title
A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath. New Edition revised with new Preface and One Hundred Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
Author
Allen, James Lane
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Date
1901