...Sandro Jung This essay approaches Edmund Spenser’s Renaissance masterpiece, The Faerie Queene , through a hitherto unknown series of twenty-four vignette illustrations that the eighteenth-century painter and book illustrator, Thomas Stothard, contributed to the nowadays little-known annual...

... on a text. Consider the contrasting interpretations that Anthony Walker and Thomas Stothard offer of the election scene in Sir Launcelot Greaves. Walker draws Launcelot astride his horse, addressing the crowd with a serious expres- sion on his face, one hand raised in a dramatic rhetorical gesture...

... launched by the Southampton-­based printer and bookseller, Thomas Baker. Each of the numbers of Baker’s Pocket Atlas included twenty-­four vignette designs (initially in oval, but subsequently in rectangular and octagonal format) by Thomas Stothard (1755  –  1834) of fash- ionable literary texts...

... celebrates The Seasons through its use of typographical variety. In 1794, John Stockdale published an illus- trated edition with fourteen engravings by Thomas Stothard and dedicated it to “Joseph Pickford, Esq., of  Royton Hall.” The edition reproduced Per- cival Stockdale’s notes. John Stockdale’s...