Hardback. xxx, 297pp.+ publishers list of books with illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie. Illustrated throughout in colour by Hugh Thomson with frontis, with tissue guard, and numerous further integral drawings. Colour illustrations are executed in a very pale palette. The best know and one of the most collectible titles from the attractive Macmillan’s ‘Cranford’ series. Green cloth with very detailed and pretty gilt floral, shell and column design to front and spine. All edges gilt. Generally very clean and bright. Some rubbing to spine edges and spine ends. Very slightly cocked.