PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe issue. Publisher's full vellum, elaborately decorated and with titles in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt, the others untrimmed, as issued. Red silk ribbon page marker present although loosely laid in and holding by a thread. Illustrated with a tissue guarded frontispiece, illustrated title page and a further 22 full page colour plates after watercolours by C. E. Brock. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm with just a little bumping at the spine ends. The vellum remains clean and the gilt bright. The contents, with just a little toning of the endpapers, and light spotting to the text block edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. A very attractive example.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Jane Austen's masterpiece, in its scarcest and most desirable deluxe binding. (Gilson E114).