This book is is a comprehensive source for all the illustrations published in one of the most influential periodicals of Austen's lifetime - Ackermann's Repository of Arts. There are over a hundred exquisite illustrations which are accompanied by the original descriptions, as published more than two hundred years ago.This book is is a comprehensive source for all the illustrations published in one of the most influential periodicals of Austen's lifetime - Ackermann's Repository of Arts. There are over a hundred exquisite illustrations which are accompanied by the original descriptions, as published more than two hundred years ago.