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Evelina

by SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders; BURNEY, Frances; THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator

$19,500 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London : MacMillan & Co Limited, 1903. One of the Finest S & S Pictorial Inlaid Bindings that we have ever seen SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE, binders. BURNEY, Frances. THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator. Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney. With an introduction by Austin Dobson and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London: MacMillan & Co., Limited, [1903]. Octavo (7 x 4 5/8 inches ;178 x 118 mm.). [i-vi], vii-xxxv, [xxxvi, blank], 1-477, [478, imprint], [2, advertisements] pp. Frontispiece, vignette title, and seventy-four full-page illustrations in the text by Hugh Thomson. Exquisitely bound in 1942 by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, stamp-signed in gilt on a red morocco label "Designed & Bound by / Sangorski & Sutcliffe / London, England, 1942" on a rear blank. Full crushed levant purple morocco extra. The covers with elaborate gilt borders of rose branches decorated with pale pink and green morocco inlays each enclosing multi-colored pictorial morocco scenes illustrating characters from the novel. Spine with four raised bands, two compartments lettered in gilt, the others continuing the rose-branch inlay pattern, the central compartment with an additional inlay of white and blue morocco depicting two quills bordered by love-hearts. Gilt ruled board edges, gilt dotted-line turn-ins. Doublures and flyleaves of pink morocco with gilt borders of inlaid white rose branches, corner-pieces of blue and white love-hearts on the doublures and purple love-hearts o

  • Publisher: London : MacMillan & Co Limited, 1903
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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