Cranford Gallery Samuel George Phear (1829-1918) was

Samuel George Phear (1829-1918) was born in East Stonham Rectory

uncommon in this state

Illustrated by the Author

and Nat Trotman

Cranford Gallery Samuel George Phear (1829-1918) wasLondon: Macmillan, 1892. An attractive copy with the evocative Hugh Thomson line drawings and gilt illustrated boards and spine. Frontispiece with the browned tissue guard. All edges gilt; previous owner's neat, inked inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1892. 'Cranford' is an episodic novel first issued in instalments in the magazine 'Household Words', then as a book with the title Cranford in 1853. The work slowly became popular and from the