SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

First edition with these illustrations. Deluxe issue. Publisher's full vellum, elaborated 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. 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, the vellum and gilt, bright and fresh. The contents, with just a little toning of the endpapers, and light spotting to the prelims and text block edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. A very attractive example.

A beautifully illustrated edition of Jane Austen's first published novel, in its scarcest and most desirable deluxe binding. (Gilson E120).