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