Mistress Masham's Repose

Overview:

  • Title: Mistress Masham's Repose
  • Author: T. H. White
  • Year: 2000
  • ISBN-10: 1903252032
  • Publisher: Jane Nissen Books
  • Price: £5.99
  • Pages: 255
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Mistress Masham's Repose
  • Notes:
    • One of four titles on the Spring 2000 list of the new imprint Jane Nissen Books (two non-genre) --back pages of Fattypuffs and Thinifers, Fall 2000
    • Publ date as 2000-05-01 and cover image from Amazon UK 2018-06-24 (no price)
    • Three WorldCat library records (OCLC, below) report variously: • "Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1947" ; "illustrated by Fritz Eichenburg", 255 pp • "Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1947" ; "illustrated by Fritz Eichenburg", 256 pp • "illustrated by Fritz Eichenberg ; [introduction by Anne Fine]", 255 pp (In fact the US ed. of the novel was published in 1946, with the illustrations by Eichenberg--the correct spelling.)
    • Price from Joanna Carey joint review of the new imprint and its four Spring 2000 titles, which also shows the mis-spelling "Eichenburg".
    • Cover artist is 1946 interior illustrator Eichenberg: "the designer, using modern technology, has created bold, beautifully coloured jackets from the original black and white illustrations." --Joanna Carey, The Guardian 2000-06-20 pB6 "Classical revival" (joint review of the new imprint and its Spring 2000 list)

      The same front cover illustration in a new design is credited on the back of the 2011 Red Fox ed. (viewed as Amazon "Look inside").