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73228 — C4c. Hardcover. 4to. Dodd Mead and Company New York. 1890. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 11 full-page George Wharton Edwards black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings with tissue guards. Bound in decorated green cloth with gilt design and titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. A gorgeous collection of Dobson's poetry with Thomson's characteristic illustrated vignettes throughout. Henry Austin Dobson 1840-1921 was born in Plymouth England the son of a civil engineer. At the age of 16 he entered the Board of Trade to begin a career in the Civil Service that would eventually see him rise to the level of Principal in the Harbour Department before retiring at the age of 61 in 1901. He married Frances Mary at the age of twenty-eight; having started to write properly at about the age of twenty-four. His first volume of work entitled "The Prodigals" appeared in 1876 with a second in 1877; and a steady stream of work until his death. George Wharton Edwards was an American Impressionist Painter and Illustrator 1869-1950. After his studies in Paris and Antwerp George Edwards went on to a varied career as an illustrator and writer in addition to painting. He illustrated Oliver Wendell Holmes"; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . hardcover