Persuasion+Illustrations

"It used to be the fashion to illustrate [Jane Austen's] books as if they were juveniles, with pictures of dainty ladies on tiny feet and in huge hats tripping down cobbled streets to shop or make calls" -Louis Auchincloss

Lithograph plates manufactured in Hazardsville, Connecticut by Rainbows Inc. Printed in Springfield, Massachusetts by the Holyoke Lithograph Co.

Full Page, Color Illustrations
 * Eight full-page color illustrations throughout the text
 * There is a close relationship between word and image. The images illustrate moments within the text.
 * The "soft" quality of print along with the Emphasis on the landscape is typical of English art and printing styles.
 * Lithograph in pen and ink, chalk, and lithotint methods.
 * Reproduces quality of other artistic mediums: watercolor, ink wash, chalk, pen and ink

Black and White In-text Illustrations
 * Fairly large, take up at least half of the page
 * Pen and Ink Lithograph
 * "O, Anne, I am so very unwell!"--the image is of two girls, one looks distraught, which corresponds directly with the text.