and Other Verses
The Story of Rosina and Other Verses
Dodd, Mead & Co., 1895.
First US edition with Thomson illustrations. 8vo. Green cloth with elaborate gilt lettering and pastoral design. Top edge gilt. Line illustrations by Hugh Thomson. A very good copy indeed.
Dobson was a 19th century English poet who used French poetic forms, such as the ballade and rondeau, to write witty, charmingly fresh poems set in the 18th century. Thomson's illustrations, drawn with exquisite delicacy, made him the perfect illustrator for Dobson's poety, as his "hand is never so happy as when it works in the half-light of a bygone time" [Preface].
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