PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

First edition, first printing of the Hugh Thomson illustrated edition. Publisher's original green cloth with titles and peacock design in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 160 line drawings by Hugh Thomson throughout the text. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, with a little fraying and bumping to the spine tips and rubbing to the extremities, the cloth a little spotted and marked to the rear board. The contents, with '3/6' in pen on the front endpaper, a little spotting to the pastedowns and the occasional finger mark and corner crease, are otherwise clean throughout. The inner hinges remain sound.

An attractive example, in entirely original condition, of this most desirable illustrated edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Of the four different states of the first edition binding known, this example is in the taller green cloth case, the text block with top edge gilt, the fore and bottom edges untrimmed. White endpapers (dark blue/green on the smaller, more common binding). (Gilson E78).