Our Village: Illustrated Edition
by Mitford, Mary Russell; Felts, Shirley
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0136449239
- ISBN 13
- 9780136449232
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Prentice Hall Direct/Simon & Schuster, 1987. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9?" - 12" tall. Shirley Felts. Type: Hardback First Prentice Hall Direct Printing, 1987. Hardcover Bookand Dust Jacket in Fine Condition. Original illustrations by Shirley Felts. Wrap-around cover art: 'Picking Flowers in a Valley', by George Turner, (1843-1910). A magnificently illustrated edition of the classic 19th century portrait of English village life. First published as articles in The Lady's Home Journal in the 1820s and 1830s, Mary Russell Mitford's sketches perfectly recapture a long-vanished rural England. It was first published in book form in 1824. This edition is bound in red cloth and parchment paper and printed throughout in full color. 130 drawings and paintings by such contemporary nineteenth century masters as Constable, Turner and Stubbs, as well as 60 exquisite watercolors and pencil drawings by artist Shirley Felts that were specially commissioned for this edition. 224 pages. 10 x 7.5". 1987, Prentice Hall Direct/Simon & Schuster, NY
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- Bookseller
- The Parnassus BookShop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 028232
- Title
- Our Village: Illustrated Edition
- Author
- Mitford, Mary Russell; Felts, Shirley
- Illustrator
- Shirley Felts
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0136449239
- ISBN 13
- 9780136449232
- Publisher
- Prentice Hall Direct/Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Size
- 4to - over 9?" - 12" t
- Keywords
- ENGLAND GREAT BRITAIN RURAL LIFE
- Bookseller catalogs
- History. Great Britain;
- X weight
- 0 oz
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