Sketches of English Life and Character, Mary Mitford, 1909

£18.00

Sketches of English Life and Character

Mary Mitford. Illustrated by Stanhope Forbes

1909

T.N. Foulis

Small 8vo

Description:

A charming early twentieth-century edition of Mitford’s well-known sketches of rural and domestic English life, first published in the nineteenth century. The volume is illustrated with sixteen plates by Stanhope Forbes, whose scenes of village life complement Mitford’s observant and sympathetic portrayals of character and community.

Condition:

Good Condition. Brown buckram cloth with gilt titles. Illustrated plates throughout. Binding is firm and pages are clean. Exlibris plate to front pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with some bumping to edges. Some splits to spine edge. Tanning to spine. General marking to spine and rear board.

Sketches of English Life and Character

Mary Mitford. Illustrated by Stanhope Forbes

1909

T.N. Foulis

Small 8vo

Description:

A charming early twentieth-century edition of Mitford’s well-known sketches of rural and domestic English life, first published in the nineteenth century. The volume is illustrated with sixteen plates by Stanhope Forbes, whose scenes of village life complement Mitford’s observant and sympathetic portrayals of character and community.

Condition:

Good Condition. Brown buckram cloth with gilt titles. Illustrated plates throughout. Binding is firm and pages are clean. Exlibris plate to front pastedown. Boards have moderate edge-wear with some bumping to edges. Some splits to spine edge. Tanning to spine. General marking to spine and rear board.