The Story Of Rosina And Other Verses

London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1895. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 11" by 8.5". Hugh Thomson. A limited first edition large paper copy of The Story of Rosina and other Verses by Austin Dobson, an English poet and essayist. A particlularly good example of Thomson's work. Dobson's poetry was critically well received, and especially noted for its maturity. By the time this work was published, he had settled into a distinctive style that suited the times very well. It might be described as a sober revival of 18th century forms. The work includes many plates of illustrations by noted illustrator Hugh Thomson, and has an illustrated title page by the same. Thomson's style reflected the nostalgia of the time, his fine line drawing of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealing to the imagination of the public. Thompson illustrated Mrs Gaskell's Cranford, going on to illustrate eleven of the twenty-four books that came to be called the Cranford series. He was friend with Austin Dobson, and this was the second of his works that he illustrated. This is number 164 of an edition limited to 250 copies. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In the original cloth. Externally very smart, with some marking to the boards and some fading to the spine. With a private library case label to the front pastedown. The text block is untrimmed but is quite clean. The free endpapers and pastedowns are a little foxed. Internally, generally clean and bright throughout, and generally firmly bound. Near Fine