Jane Austen
The Complete Novels
Jane Austen
Following the worldwide success of Jane Austen: Complete Novels with Hugh Thomson's delightful pen-and-ink illustrations, The Collector's Library has commissioned Britain's leading colourist, Barbara Frith, to prepare colour versions of these magical images. The result is a book of unparalleled style and beauty, which will win the hearts of Janeites everywhere as well as appealing to lovers of fine literature and fine books.
Each book is presented in a handsome and enduring cloth covered slip-case, with the Austen family coat-of-arms inset in colour.
Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) created an ideal world of stage coaches, sedan chairs, feasts and port wine which were not only very pretty, but also much more authentic than any previous attempts to portray the genre in which he was most at home. From the late 1880s he was in continuous demand for the novels of Jane Austen, Fanny Burney, Mrs Gaskell, Charles Read and others, yet his studies of London life and the cockney poor are a notable achievement.
Barbara Frith is one of Britain's leading colourists. Her rendering of Hugh Thomson's illustrations have won the approval and commendation of both Jane Austen's House and Museum at Chawton and The Jane Austen Centre at Bath.
ISBN 978 1 905716 76 0
£25.00 RRP in UK
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