Title: A SENTIMENTAL | JOURNEY | THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY | BY | LAURENCE STERNE | ILLUSTRATED BY | MAHLON BLAINE | {vignette} | Illustrated library | HALCYON HOUSE | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK ||
Pagination: [1-6] – first leaf blank, h.t., t.p., 7-192, total 192 pages; frontispiece plus 4 plates within collation, and a headpiece, all photomechanical reproductions of Mahlon Blaine’s pen drawings.
Binding: 20.5 x 14 cm, off-white pictorial paper boards decorated with black ivy-clad pink lattice, black lettering in a pink frame to spine, pink pictorial dust jacket with spine sunned to beige.
Contributors:
Sterne, Laurence (British-Irish, 1713 – 1768) – author of the text.
Blaine, Mahlon (American, 1894 – 1969) – illustrator (pseudonym: G. Christopher Hudson).
The Illustrated library series was started by Halcyon House, a reprint division of Doubleday Publishers, in 1950. This edition of Sterne with Blaine’s illustrations is a reprint of the same, published by Three Sirens Press of New York in 1930. Blaine's illustrations of this kind are pen drawings, not wood engravings.
Additional Information
| Collection | Illustrated books , Library |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Period | 20 AD |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1950 |
| Edition | Re-print |
| Binding | Dust jacket , Hardcover , Paper |
| Material | Paper |
| Subject | 18th century , English literature , Fiction , France , Italy , Novel , Prose , Travel , Voyages and Travels |
| Media/Technique | Photogravure |
| Acquisition year | 2021 |
