Evelina: Or, a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World / Fanny Burney

Name/Title

Evelina: Or, a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World / Fanny Burney

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.9

Description

Bound for Beauty #84 xxxv, 477 p. : ill With introduction by Austin Dobson.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Manners and customs, Fiction, 1900s

Dimensions

Height

7-1/2 in

Book Details

Author

Fanny Burney

Illustrator

Hugh Thomson

Edition

First

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1903

Printer

R. & R. Clark

Place Printed

City

Edinburgh

Country

Scotland, United Kingdom

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Designer

Hugh Thomson

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green cloth with an art nouveau cover illustration after a drawing by Hugh Thomson. Cover and spine decorations in gilt with a standing young woman holding a feather quill under a tree whose leaves encompass all of the space within a scalloped border. All edges gilt.

Notes

Owner's bookplate to ffep, Grace M. Pugh

Relationships

Related Places

Place

Country

England

Exhibitions

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection
Lobby Case Aug 2020 - Nov 2020