Quality Street

J M Barrie

Published by Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1913

About this Item

A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 22 tipped-in colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations and designs by Hugh Thomson. Undated but 1913 1st trade edition. Quality Street was one of a series of works commissioned for the high quality Christmas present market. Hugh Thomson was mainly known for his black and white illustrations, for example for Pride and Prejudice, but his colour-tinted works proved very popular, and Quality Street followed Merry Wives of Windsor, School for Scandal, and She Stoops to Conquer. They featured beautiful decorative bindings, colour plates and delicate designs. This copy has a near fine binding, with clear bright gilt design to the front board. The spine is duller, but only slightly pulled, and the back board is clean with 2 very light pale marks at the top. The textured decorative endpapers are unmarked. With frontispiece, decorative title page, and 21 further plates. Each plate has a decorative tissue-guard. There is some spotting to the half title page and the verso of the frontispiece, with the odd spot to contents and character list, and some spotting on the final page. Elsewhere the contents are very clean and in very good condition. There is occasional light marking in the gutter and the odd spot. A nice copy. Seller Inventory # 032345

Bibliographic Details

Title: Quality Street

Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton, London

Publication Date: 1913

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Illustrator: Hugh Thomson

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket