Jane Austen, novels, "Peacock Series", London, Macmillan, 18...

Hammer

£500

Jane Austen, novels, "Peacock Series", London, Macmillan, 1896-97, 5 volumes in 4, frontispieces and full page illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original red "cloth elegant", upper covers and spines with elaborate floral designs by A.A. Turbayne in gilt, endpapers with peacock design in yellow, comprising 'Emma', 1896, 1st edition thus, 'Sense and Sensibility', 1896, 1st edition thus, 'Mansfield Park', 1897, 1st edition thus, 'Northanger Abbey & Persuasion', 1897, 1st edition thus, plus a duplicate Macmillan "Peacock Series" copy of 'Emma', 1898, reprint (3rd printing), all bar 'Pride & Prejudice' in this Macmillan set of Austen's Novels issued from 1896 in this "cloth elegant" Turbayne binding with the peacock endpapers, hence known as the 'Peacock Series' (5)