Lot 208
Austen, Jane
[The novels, 'Peacock series']
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898 [Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, 1897]. 5 volumes, 8vo, original decorative red cloth gilt designed by A. A. Turbayne, all edges gilt, frontispieces and full-pages illustrations by Hugh Thomson and C. E. Brock, spines sunned, uneven sunning to covers, light fraying to spine-ends, spotting and soiling to endpapers, Sense and Sensibility half-title browned from laid-in newspaper cutting, pp. 127/8 repaired, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion half-title spotted and browned in grid pattern
Footnote
Note: Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels edition, deluxe issue, in the 'cloth elegant' bindings designed by A. A. Turbayne and with yellow endpapers bearing a peacock design, and consequently known as the 'Peacock series'. The edition was also bound in red cloth with a plainer blind-stamped design. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice and Emma are third impressions, Mansfield Park is a second impression, and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion is a first.