CRANFORD

Deluxe issue. Publisher's original vellum, elaborately decorated and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. With a tissue guarded frontispiece, illustrated title page and a further 22 full page colour plates after watercolours by C. E. Brock. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the vellum and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with just a little toning to the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps.

A beautifully illustrated and produced deluxe edition of Elizabeth Gaskell's classic of English literature, issued in J. M. Dent's 'Series of English Idylls'. Charles Brock's colour illustrations for Cranford were first published in 1904.