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Title: De libris : prose & verse
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Dobson, Austin, 1840-1921
Subjects: Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901 Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ighways and Bywaysseries, he has also illustrated, wholly or in part,volumes on Ireland, North Wales, Devon, Cornwalland Yorkshire. The last volume, Kent, 1907, isentirely decorated by himself. In this instance, hisdrawings throughout are in pencil, and he is his owntopographer. It is a remarkable departure, both inmanner and theme, though Mr. Thomsons likingfor landscape has always been pronounced. Iwould desire above all things, he told an inter-viewer, to pass my time in painting landscape.Landscape pictures always attract me, and the grandexamples, Gainsboroughs, Claudes, Cromes, andTurners, to be seen any day in our National Gallery,are a source of never-failing yearning and delight.The original drawings for the Kent book are ofgreat beauty ; and singularly dexterous in the variedmethods by which the effect is produced. The artistis now at work on the county of Surrey. It isearnest of his versatility that, in 1904, he illustratedfor Messrs. Wells, Darton and Co., with conspicuous
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i^ercft-v Ld4.e -^O-XrU MKRCKRY l.ANK, CANTKRHURV.(From a pencil-drawing tor Uifi^/iiciyi .jiid Byicuys in Kent.) MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS 123 success, a modernised prose version of certain ofChaucers Canterbury Tales^ as well as l^ales fromMaria Edgevjorth, 1903 ; and he also executed, in1892 and 1895/ some charming designs to selec-tions from the verses of the present writer, who haslong enjoyed the privilege of his friendship. Personal traits do not come within the provinceof this paper, or it would be pleasant to dwell uponMr. Thomsons modesty, his untiring industry, andhis devotion to his art. But in regard to that art,it may be observed that to characterise it solely aspacking the memory with pleasant fancies maysuffice for an exordium, but is inadequate as a finalappreciation. Let me therefore note down, as theyoccur to me, some of his more prominent pictorialcharacteristics. With three of the artists mentionedin this and the preceding paper, he has obviousaffinities, while, in

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