[THOMSON, Hugh, Illustrator]. Austin DOBSON. The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century.

[THOMSON, Hugh, Illustrator]. Austin DOBSON. The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century.[THOMSON, Hugh, Illustrator]. Austin DOBSON. The Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trbner & Co. 1892. Royal 8vo. Original beige cloth, spine lettered in gilt, edges uncut and unopened; 50 illustrations by Thomson, including full page plates on Japanese vellum and numerous vignettes and tail pieces; covers a trifle marked, but a very good copy, contemporary armorial bookplate of Edwin Frederick Fitch.

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Melanges XVII: Termites

Gritta Weil

Wells Street

Contemporary diced and ornamented calf

by this hand I'll have that gown

24 May 1900)

More a series of ruminations than a traditional novel

first few leaves worn

290 x 220 mm

An original chromolithograph from Act V Scene I of Shakespeare's "The Tempest

trade and manufacturing at the time