First edition, first printing of the Hugh Thomson illustrated edition (the so called 'peacock edition'). Original green cloth with titles and peacock design in gilt to the upper board and spine. All edges gilt. Illustrated with 160 line drawings by Hugh Thomson throughout the text, including the tissue guarded frontispiece. Original green coated endpapers. A near fine copy, the binding firm with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh, the gilt just a touch dulled to the slightly rolled spine. The contents, with a small previous owner's name to the top edge of the blank reverse of the frontispiece, and a single short closed tear to the blank margin of one page, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. The inner hinges remain sound.
An excellent example, in entirely original condition, of this most desirable illustrated edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. (Gilson E78).
Stock code: 28568
£4,500