Lot 305

Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice, with a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
£693
Description
London: George Allen, 1894. First Thomson-illustrated edition, first impression, 8vo, xxvii 476 pp., original blue cloth, spine and front board lavishly decorated with peacock design in gilt, all edges gilt, frontispiece and illustrations throughout by Hugh Thomson, spine rolled, nicked and head and foot, front joint partially split, short sections of wear to rear joint, cloth worn away at tips of boards, superficial cracking to endpapers along inner hinges, personal book-label to front free endpaper, contemporary ownership inscription to half-title
