Mansfield Park. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson and with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan, 1897. First Edition Thus. Pp, 429. Maroon cloth boards, richly decorated in floral motif, with title lettered on upper cover & spine. Peacock pictorial endpapers. All edges in gilt. A fine bright copy.

The first Hugh Thomson illustrated edition of Mansfield Park, part of the celebrated series of Jane Austen novels issued by Macmillan at the turn of the century. Thomson’s delicate pen-and-ink drawings, including numerous full-page plates and vignettes, helped define the visual aesthetic of Austen’s work for a generation of readers.

Hugh Thompson was an Irish Illustrator born at Coleraine near Derry, who is best known for his pen-and-ink illustrations of works by authors Charles Dickens, J. M. Barrie & Jane Austen.

A particularly bright example of this handsomely produced volume.