Thomas Bewick, Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Lear, Sarah Losh, and the Lunar Men

Uglow, Jenny

Five volumes: 'Elizabeth Gaskell - a Habit of Stories' (1993, second impression), 'The Lunar Men – the Friends Who Made the Future' (2002), 'Nature's Engraver – a Life of Thomas Bewick' (2006, signed by the author), 'The Pinecone – the Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine – Antiquarian, Architect and Visionary' (2012, second impression), and 'Mr. Lear – a Life of Art and Nonsense' (2017). Two men, two women, and a group history by the wonderful biographer and historian, who recaptures lost ways of life and makes you feel the life behind the facts.

Publisher: Faber and Faber. Three first English editions and two reprints 1993-2017
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: London
'Mr Lear' is cloth spine and publisher's pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper. 'The Lunar Men' has some light foxing along the top edge, else the remaining four volumes are all fine in dustwrappers. The five vols.


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