MANNING, Anne.

£200 · Offered by Peter Harrington

The Household of Sir Thomas More. First Brock edition, in the publisher's deluxe vellum binding. Dent commissioned Charles Brock to produce new illustrations in colour for their "Series of English Idylls" following Brock's success illustrating Jane Austen's works for Dent in collaboration with his brother Henry Brock in 1898.Manning's novelization of More's domestic life was originally published in 1851.

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