Austen, Jane
Pride and Prejudice
£504
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 19 June 2024 from 10:00 BST
Description
Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1895. First edition thus, 8vo, xxx 352 pp. original red patterned cloth lettered in gilt, frontispiece and full-page illustrations throughout by C. E. Brock, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, 4 pp. advertisements dated 1894 to rear, spine very slightly faded, a little rubbed at head and foot, tips bumped [Gilson E79]. Together with: Sense and Sensibility, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1898 [cf. Gilson E82, first published 1896]; Emma, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1896, first edition thus, cloth mottled [Gilson E86]; Mansfield Park, Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 1898 [cf. Gilson E88, first published 1897] (4)
Provenance
From the library of the late Robert Bogdan (1950-2023), of Boghead of Torries and Dykehead of Avochie, Aberdeenshire, geography master at Charterhouse and sometime chairman of the Scottish Castles Association.