“the luxury of a raised, restless, and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho”
More eBay fun…Alert Janeite Laurel sent a link to an auction of an engraving of Catherine Morland reading what is clearly a very horrid novel. (Not really an auction, it’s a Buy It Now, but you know what we mean.) It’s the same illustration as this one at Molland’s (which Laurel sent us some years ago); though we were once informed it was from the 1833 Bentley editions of Jane Austen’s novels, the auction claims it is from an 1892 book, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and Drama by Rev. E. Cobham Brewer. It should, however, be pointed out that the Bentley editions were reprinted many times, so the origins of the illustration may have been lost by the time the Rev. Mr. Brewer ran across them. And this one’s certainly less spendy than the Brock we linked the other day.
August 3rd, 2007 at 1:24 am
I bought one of these a few months ago. It’s a nice little print. The 1892 book is an anthology of some sort, so the original could have been made for the Bentley edition.