Introductory material
- Hugh Thomson as a book illustrator
- Hugh Thomson as book-cover designer
- Books with illustrations and bindings by Hugh Thomson
Individual Illustrations
- No-one could black his boots except himself
- To show your tight ankles
- The Autumn Idyll
- Miss Matty
- To see the Alderney
- With bland satisfaction
- The Church smiling approval
- The Church, Kingston-upon-Thames
Forty Illustrations for Emma by Jane Austen (1891, 1905)
- Frontispiece: "Emma was not sorry to have such an opportunity of survey."
- ‘Two umbrellas for us’
- With a slice of Mrs. Weston’s wedding-cake
- Ready to jump up and see the progress
- ‘Showing your picture to his mother and sisters’
- Rode off in great spirits
- ‘Tossing them up to the ceiling’
- ‘Flying Henry's kite for him’
- She had never been able to get anything tolerable
- As they walked into Mrs. Weston’s drawing-room
- ‘Is this fair, Mrs. Weston?’
- ‘A pert young lawyer’
- ‘Oh, here it is’
- ‘Miss Bates was very chatty and good-humoured’
- ‘Who should come in but Elizabeth and her brother!’
- In that very room she had been measured
- He stop to look in
- Having his hair cut
- Had secured her hand
- Deeply occupied about her spectacles.
- ‘Oh, Mr. Knightley, one moment more’
- ‘He has asked her, my dear’
- Mrs. Elton was first seen at church
- Some vulgar, some dashing widow
- ‘You have heard those charming lines of the poet’
- ‘I am very sorry, Miss Fairfax, of your being out this morning in the rain’
- ‘How my brother, Mr. Suckling, sometimes flies about’
- ‘Well! This is brilliant indeed!’
- Among the bulky forms and stooping shoulders
- Harriet was soon assailed
- Mr. Perry passed by on horseback
- ‘Oh, now you are looking very sly’
- Able to take an interest in their employment
- Seen the Crown chaise pass by
- Miss Bates came to the carriage door
- He stopped to look the question
- Walking away from William Lawkins
- ‘Such a dreadful broiling morning’
- Emma hung about him affectionetly
- It passed to Mrs. Cole, Mrs. Perry, and Mrs. Elton.
Book cover designs
- Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford, 1891
- Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, 1894
- Coridon’s Song, 1894
- Hugh Dobson's The Story of Rosina, 1895
- George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life, 1906
Secondary works
Austen, Jane. Emma: An Annotated Edition. Ed. Bharat Tandon. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Belknap Press of Harvard U. P., 2012.
Carter, John. Publisher’s Cloth: an Outline History of Publisher’s Binding in England, 1820–1900. 1935; rpt., Aberystwyth: College of Librarianship, 1970.
Muir, Percy. Victorian Illustrated Books. 1971; rpt. London: Batsford, 1985.
Reccio, Thomas. Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Cranford’: a Publishing History. Burlington, V.T: Ashgate, 2009.
Wood, Esther. ‘British Trade Book Bindings and their Designers’. The Winter Number of The Studio, 1899–1900, pp. 3–37.
Created 23 March 2014
Last modified 5 May 2026