AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, with a prefac...

Hammer

£260

AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). Pride and Prejudice, with a preface by George Saintsbury and Illustration by Hugh Thomson, London: George Allen, 1895. second “Peacock” edition, illustrated throughout by Hugh Thomson including frontispiece, decorated title-page, full-page and in-text illustrations, decorative initials and chapter headings, publisher’s ornament on verso of half-title, previous owners inscriptions on half-title, Thomson’s facsimile printed inscription ‘To J. Comwyns Carr’, George Saintsbury preface, new green endpapers, original black front endpaper with ‘Bertie Noble, 1899’ inscription on verso bound-in, original publisher’s blue pictorial cloth lettered with elaborate blocked gilt decoration to upper board and spine after a design by Hugh Thomson, gilt edges, printed at the Chiswick Press-Charles Wittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London, 8vo (13.5 x 19cm) This copy was printed in March 1895, five months after the first Peacock edition printed in October 1894. Thomson’s was the first edition of Jane Austen’s novel to contain illustrations throughout, with previous editions, such as the Bentley 1833 edition only containing a frontispiece. Boards cocked with rubbing and wear, corners rubbed and bumped, gilt edges bright, some foxing to half-title and preliminaries, mark to margin on p. 7, otherwise internally a clean bright copy