Ornament with Sybil Tawse signature
Sybil Tawse
Illustrations for Silas Marner by George Eliot

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Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner dustwrapper

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner cover

Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., n.d. [1929]
12mo, 356pp
8 ink illustrations

The Nelson Classics series had been published since 1905, with a new dustwrapper design for the series introduced in the late 1920s.

Including, curiously, this with an unsigned illustration by another artist for Silas Marner illustrated by Sybil Tawse. The book was a one shilling-and-sixpence pocket edition, with poor quality reproductions of the drawings.



Printings from the same stereotypes were used into the 1940s, with this new dustwrapper design in blue, at two shillings.
 

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 1

1. "I can't leave my father, nor own anybody nearer than him."

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 2

2. The livelong day he sat in his loom.

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 3

3. Looking around at the company with his strange unearthly eyes.

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 4

4. To ascertain that the back view was equally faultless.

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 5

5. She walked always more and more drowsily.

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 6

6. "There, then! why, you take to it quite easy, Master Marner."

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 7

7. "I wish we had a little garden, father."

Sybil Tawse - Silas Marner 8

8. "And who is it he's wanting to marry?"


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