OLD ENGLISH SONGS, From Various Sources, with Illustrations by Hugh Thomson
London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1894. First Edition. Hardcover. A collection of ten English folk songs, including "The Angler's Song" and "A Hunting We Will Go", brilliantly illustrated by Hugh Thomson. The first of the Cranfield School of British artists who abandoned the 1890s style of Aubrey Beardsley for the delicacy of an 18th century mode, Thomson (1860-1920) is best known for illustrating the iconic peacock edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Octavo: xxxi, [1, blank], 163, [1, blank] pp. with frontispiece with tissue guard, 75 full-page plates, and 6 textual vignettes, all wood engravings by W & S, after Hugh Thomson. In the publisher's forest green flat-weave cloth binding, with gilt-stamped vignette of an angler on a bridge, vignette of a woman, floral devices, and titling. All edges gilt, with forest green coated endpapers. A fine copy. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Item #78908
Price: $150.00