Mary Russell Mitford; Anne Thackeray Ritchie — Our Village

London, Macmillan and Co. 1910. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated edition of Mary Russell Mitford's work with charming depictions of English country life by Alfred Rawlings and Hugh Thomson. A fascinating compilation of sketches depicting life in the English countryside. The series is based upon life in Three Mile Cross, a small hamlet where the author, Mary Russell Mitford, lived.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifteen colour plates, and numerous in-text monochrome illustrations. Collated and complete. In-text illustrations are by Hugh Thomson. Thomson was an Irish illustrator, who did pen-and-ink illustrations for editions of works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and J. M. Barrie.Colour plates have been meticulously illustrated by Alfred Rawlings. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, some general shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Significant fading to the cloth on the boards, and darkening of the cloth to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean. Good . Ill.: Hugh Thomson; Alfred Rawlings. Good .