Our Village

Images from Our Village (1893) by Miss Mitford – Mary Russell Mitford (1787 – 1865) – with one hundred illustrations by Hugh Thomson (1860 – 1920). I bought my copy at Olivia’s Books in Picton, Ontario.

The text and illustrations are out of copyright; I have not yet scanned all of the illustrations, but the text is online if you do a Web search.

Front Cover

Front Cover

The front cover of “Our Village” by Miss Mitford; it is a dark greenish colour with gold flowers and gilt lettering.

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Frontispiece: Watering My Flowers

Frontispiece: Watering My Flowers

A lady stands in the path of an English thatched country cottage garden; she wears a dress, a bonnet and dainty shoes, and holds in one hand a watering can, with which she is watering the garden. [more...]

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