Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
£2,142
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1907. First ‘English Idylls’ edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 24 colour plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, contemporary calligraphic presentation slip mounted to front free endpaper, covers slightly sprung and mottled, spotting to edges, free endpapers browned, [Gilson E114];
Idem. Emma. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs and Illustrations by Chris Hammond. London; George Allen, 1894. First edition, 8vo, original decorative blue cloth gilt, top edge gilt, all plates as called for (counted in pagination and register), front inner hinge cracked and worn, private address blind stamps to free endpapers, small hole to front free endpaper;
Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. With twenty-five coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1904. First ‘English Idylls’ edition, deluxe issue, 8vo, original decorative vellum gilt, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, 25 colour plates including frontispiece and vignette title-page, contemporary calligraphic presentation slip mounted to verso of half-title, covers sprung
Footnote
The first Brock-illustrated edition of Pride and Prejudice appeared in 1895, but in that edition the illustrations were different and not in colour.