1872 Rare Book - Winter Evenings, Tales of Travellers by Maria Hack, IllustratedAuthor: Maria Hack. Illustrated by Gilbert and Harvey. Title: Winter Evenings; or, Tales of Travellers. Publisher: London, Strahan & Co., 56 Ludgate Hill, 1872. Language: Text in English. Size: 7 x 4. 5 inches. Pages: vi 463 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good publishers decorative Victorian cloth binding. Original green textured cloth, richly decorated in gilt and black to the upper board and spine with ornamental arch and sun motif and

Illustrations: Complete with the six beautiful illustrations by Laurence Housman

Hearn’s work bridges the eerie and the reflective

Art Nouveau linework

" including renowned works like "The Raven

A handy-book for the rambling botanist

With a Memoir of the Author

prompting his emigration to Switzerland

[circa 1957]

The artwork complements the whimsical and humorous tone of the story

producing wet collodion portraits on glass

and Montgomery’s unmistakable pastoral lyricism

A refined 19th-century binding