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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). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Condition: Very Good ++. Jacket Condition: . 1st Edition thus, 12 x 18.5 cm green cloth with gilt stamped decoration and titles to the front and spine. Top edge gilt, xxviii, 389[3]pp with 64 line drawn illustrations by Chris Hammond as called for. [Gilson E94] A lovely copy in much better condition than is often found and in original, untouched condition with bright gilt decoration and titles. There is the usual toning to the spine which extends just onto the front board, with a touch of rubbing to the head and a little pushing to the foot. There is a little light marking to the lower board, together with minor pushing to the corners. Internally, without name, inscription or bookplate but with some toning and spotting to the prelims (particularly ffep/half title - see images) and last few pages. The rest of the book is clean with only the occasional light handling mark and very faint spotting to the edge of the text block. Christiana Mary Demain Hammond was the first woman to fully illustrate some of Jane Austen's novels, also completing editions of Pride & Prejudice and Emma before her, sadly early, death at the age of 30 in 1900. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Condition: Very Good +. Jacket Condition: . 1st Edition thus in red 'cloth elegant' designed by A A Turbayne with profuse gilt decoration and titles to the front and spine. All edges gilt, yellow peacock design endpapers xvi, 341[1]pp with 40 full page line drawn illustrations by Hugh Thomson. [Gilson E82] The boards are clean and bright with the spine just very slightly dulled. There is a touch of rubbing to the spine tips and corners with a tiny scuff to the top corner of the upper board. Internally without name, inscription or bookplate, with some light spotting to the title page and occasional marking to the margins of a few pages, more so particularly to pages 30-32 though (see images). A lovely looking copy in original untouched condition. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Full Description: [AUSTEN, Jane]. Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Sense and Sensibility." Second Edition. London: Printed for T. Egerton, 1813. Second edition, published the same year as the first edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 1/4 x 4 3/8 inches; 185 x 110 mm.). [4], 307, [1, colophon]; [4], 239, [1, blank]; [4], 323, [1, blank] pp. Bound with all half-titles. The title-page and half-title of volume II have been supplied from another volume I copy, and the "II" is completed in ink manuscript. Bound by P. Hembra on quarter later calf over marbled boards. Red morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spines stamped and lettered in gilt. Newer endpapers. All leaves uncut. Some occasional foxing and toning to leaves. A few leaves with small tears at corners, with no loss of text. Some occasional dog-ear creasing to a few corners. Overall a very good set. According to Chapman, there is "no external evidence that the author had any part in the second edition; and it contains no changes that can be attributed to revision." "Despite some success with her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, Austen sold all rights and profits of Pride and Prejudice to publisher Thomas Egerton. Upon its release on January 18, 1813, the book gained a wide readership, and Egerton printed a second edition later that year. Of the 1,500 first-edition volumes Egerton printed, only a few complete versions are known to exist. The first-edition Pride and Prejudice was printed in 1813 in London as a set of three volumes, a common practice of the day. Austen published her works anonymously; she is identified on the title page only as 'the author of Sense and Sensibility.'" (the Newberry Library) Gilson A4. HBS 69505. $32,500.

Condition: Fair. 1933. First Edition Thus. 322 pages. No dust jacket. Grey patterned cloth. Contains colour illustrated plates. Illustrated by Maximilien Vox, who also wrote a Prefatory letter in French after the intro. Introduction by Emile Legouis. Pages are lightly tanned with mild foxing throughout. More pronounced foxing to text block edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding throughout remains firm. Noticeable brown staining to pages 126-7. Text remains legible. Illustrations are bright and clean. Minor water staining to top edge of text block. Boards have slight edge wear with corner bumping. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges with some crushing to spine ends. Small splits to spine ends with cloth slightly frayed. Lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Early rebinding in polished half red calf, pale red linen to boards. Low raised bands, gilt decor, and gilt lettering to spines. 8vos. A couple of minor marks to front board of Pride and Prejudice; small dark mark to rear board of Emma; minor abrasion to front board of Sense and Sensibility at bottom corner. Faint sunning to spines and to top front board of Sense and Sensibility. Top edges gilt; fore-edges untrimmed. Minor foxing to page edges. Endpapers marbled in pale red. Some browning to endpapers. Tiny bookseller's label to inside each front board: Phillipson & Golder, Chester. Brief bookseller's pencil inscrip. to rear blank endpage in most vols. Mild foxing, mostly confined to prelims. All vols are 1901 except Northanger Abbey and Persuasion (bound together; 1902) and Pride and Prejudice (1903). All vols are illustrated by Hugh Thomson, except for Pride and Prejudice, which has illustrations by Charles Brock. Thomson and Brock, together with Chris Hammond, produced the defining illustrations of Austen's works for the 1890s and early 20th century. Thomson's 'playful and intriguing' illustrations were the first to historicise the novels, showing characters in Regency costumes 'amid appropriate "period" furniture' and offering 'delicate and charming recreations of a vanished grace'; Brock's were distinguished by a 'theatrical and often comic dynamism' (Carroll & Wiltshire, 2009, 'Jane Austen, Illustrated', in A Companion to Jane Austen, ed. Tuite & Johnson, pp. 88, 93). A handsome set. Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders on request. Used books are exempt from USA tariffs. Size: c. 400pp. per vol.

Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: . 1st Edition of the Nouvelle Library series consisting of Vol I - Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice; Volume II - Emma & Mansfield Park; Volume III - Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. 10 x 17.3 cm full red leather, with five raised bands, gilt line borders to the front and rear boards, all edges gilt and marbled endpapers, signed by Hatchards. The boards are clean and bright with no sign of damage and just a touch of toning to the spines. Internally clean without name, inscription or bookplate. A beautiful leather bound set. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

J. M. Dent and E. P. Dutton. London & New York. 1950. All volumes first edition thus. Sumptiously bound by Zaehnsdorf of London in half maroon crushed morocco gilt. Decorations to compartments of spine. All page edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with colour plates by Charles E. Brock. Very slight signs of use otherwise a fine and stunning set of illustrated Jane Austen.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brock, C. E. (illustrator). 1st Edition. True first British printing of this edition, 1908. First thus. Part of 'The Series of English Idylls'. No jacket as issued. With twenty four coloured illustrations by C. E. Brock. All illustrations (including tissue guarded frontispiece) are present and in very good condition. Grey boards with gold lettering/decoration to spine and front are very good with a little pushing/bumping to corners, a few small marks, little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to edges and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top edge of pages gilt (little dulled/scratched). Rough cut page edges and bottoms have the odd small mark/spot of foxing. Inside boards/end-papers tanned. Pages bit tanned. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Limited to 750 copies. This exquisite Folio limited edition includes new introduction by Historian and lifelong Austen fan Lucy Worsley, and individual essays for each novel by celebrated writers including Sebastian Faulks and Elena Ferrante. Housed in a cloth-bound presentation box, each of the six novels is bound in a specially woven silk cover and features delightful woodcut illustrations by Sarah Young. Signed by the Illustrator and Introducer. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing of *The Chawton Edition in green half-leather binding and matching green and gilt marbled boards with gilt letters in brown gilt-lined borders to the spines. Six volumes in Near Fine condition: bindings very strong, clean and bright with no splits or loose pages; no previous owner's marks; very clean and tight text blocks with with no spotting or sunning; attractive oval woodcut illustrations of the large cottage in *Chawton, where Jane and her mother and sisters lived, to each title page and woodcut decorated chapter headings throughout. Slight loss of gilt letters to the spine of one volume only: Mansfield Park (please see images). An attractive matching set of six volumes with eight titles will need additional postage. PBJA1111D *Chawton House, a manor house in Hampshire, was the home of Jane Austen's wealthy elder brother Edward in the late 18th century. Jane was known to have used his extensive library at Chawton House, which is now a charitable trust with a notable collection of works by early women writers, including those of Jane Austen. Jane spent the last eight years of her life at the large cottage, which was part of Edward's estate and which he had offered to his mother and sisters in 1809. (Jane moved briefly to Winchester for medical treatment before she died there). The cottage is now Jane Austen's House Museum and is open to visitors.

Condition: Good. 1948. First Edition Thus. 325 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Ex-Libris plate stuck to front pastedown. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Binding remains firm. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Fraying to cloth to spine.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Early Edition. 7" x 4"; IN 1899, LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY PUBLISHED A TWELVE-VOLUME SET OF JANE AUSTEN'S NOVELS. THIS SET INCLUDED ALL OF HER MAJOR WORKS: SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, MANSFIELD PARK, EMMA, NORTHANGER ABBEY, AND PERSUASION. IT ALSO INCLUDED LADY SUSAN, THE WATSONS (WITH A MEMOIR) , AND LETTERS. A scarce edition, particularly, in original green cloth covers. Gilt designs on covers. As always the green spines have faded to brown. Minor wear to tops of some spines. Each volume complete with b/w frontis plate. "Letters" has minor faults which is due to moisture. Other volumes are fault free excepting the pictured volume "Letters" which shows moisture faults. Overall a very nice, firmly bound, set. Volumes are roughly 2-300 pages each. Signed and dated by Mary B Gardener, 1899. This desirable set has been recently listed and sold in the $3000 to $5000 and up range.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. An unusual Jane Austen edition in that it was - to the best of my knowledge - was only ever published in these matching 3 volumes. I have only ever seen these 3 titles. Most probably a book club edition, but handsome nonetheless. bound in quarter red cloth (that looks like leatherette) over green cloth boards - gilt embossed to each spine and to the front boards. The leading edges deckled. No inscriptions. Leading edges deckled. No dust jackets as issued. Some spotting to the upper fore-edges. The head and tail of the spine of 'Emma' a little bumped. Likewise bumps to the head and tails of the spines of Sense and Sensibility and a bump to the tail of the spine of Pride and Prejudice.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST 'ENGLISH IDYLLS' EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5 x 12.5 x 3cm); pp. [viii], 308. English text. Publisher's original full cloth; elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; t.e.g.; untrimmed fore edge and bottom edge; pictorial endpapers; initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present; framed title-page with vignette; illustrated with 24 full-page coloured plates by C. E. Brock; head-pieces. Printed by The Temple Press. Condition: NEAR FINE. A touch of browning to endpapers and a neat contemporary gift inscription, otherwise a fine example. Scarce thus. Notes: Charles Edmund Brock first illustrated Sense and Sensibility for the edition published by J.M. Dent & Co. in 1898, as part of the novels of Jane Austen in 10 volumes. Sense and Sensibility was published in two volumes for this edition, each with a colour frontispiece and five further plates. For this later edition, Brock produced a new suite of plates, based on watercolour drawings. They are all signed by Brock and dated 1907 or 1908. [Gilson E90 & E120].

Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st thus, Large -Paper Edition Limited to 1,000 sets of which 950 were intended for sale. 15.4 x 23.2 cm blue cloth backed marbled boards with white title labels. All have uncut edges with spare titles label to the rear. Sense and Sensibility, xii 429 (1)pp, colour frontispiece and 6 black and white plates and folding map of London and Westminster to the rear; Pride and Prejudice, xiii (i) 415(1)pp, colour frontispiece and 7 black and white illustrations; Mansfield Park, xii 567(1)pp, colour frontispiece and 9 black and white illustrations; Emma, xi (i) 521(1), colour frontispiece and 12 black and white illustrations; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, xiii (i) 310pp with 2 colour frontispieces, 14 black and white illustrations and a folding map of Bath to the rear. In original blue/grey dust jackets with dark blue printed titles to the front and spine and contents information to the rear. [Gilson E150] An exceptional set, clean and bright with no fading or toning to the spine. There is a touch of shelf-wear with tiny bruises to the lower fore edge corners of the front boards of Mansfield Park and Emma. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a narrow toned band to the rear free endpaper of Emma and front & rear free endpapers of Northanger Abbey where the dust jacket does not reach. The dust jackets are remarkable survivors. They are lightly toned on the spine but the front and rear panels are surprisingly bright and clean. There is very light rubbing to the edges and extremely minor chipping to the head of the spine of Sense & Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Emma. There is a small piece of old tape reinforcement to the verso of the head of the spines of Emma and Sense & Sensibility and the lower joint of Sense and sensibility has a 6.5 cm split which is very difficult to see now that the dust jackets are protected in clear removable covers [not shown]. Without doubt the best copy of this beautifully produced limited edition set we have ever come across. An exceptional set, clean and bright with no fading or toning to the spine. There is a touch of shelf-wear with tiny bruises to the lower fore edge corners of the front boards of Mansfield Park and Emma. Internally clean, without name, inscription or bookplate and just a narrow toned band to the rear free endpaper of Emma and front & rear free endpapers of Northanger Abbey where the dust jacket does not reach. The dust jackets are remarkable survivors. They are lightly toned on the spine but the front and rear panels are surprisingly bright and clean. There is very light rubbing to the edges and extremely minor chipping to the head of the spine of Sense & Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Emma. There is a small piece of old tape reinforcement to the verso of the head of the spines of Emma and Sense & Sensibility and the lower joint of Sense and sensibility has a 6.5 cm split which is very difficult to see now that the dust jackets are protected in clear removable covers [not shown]. Without doubt the best copy of this beautifully produced limited edition set we have ever come across. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (18.5 x 12 x 2.5 cm); pp. xxviii, 389. English text with an introduction by Joseph Jacobs and numerous illustrations throughout by Chris Hammond. Stunningly bound in full red morocco gilt by Bayntun-Riviere; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; frontispiece with tissue guard plus 85 wood engravings. Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Condition: FINE. An absolutely immaculate copy. Notes: The first edition with Chris Hammond's wonderful illustrations, presented in a mint signed binding by Bayntun-Riviere. A most desirable Victorian illustrated edition of Miss Austen's Regency classic.

Condition: Very good plus. First US edition of Austen's first novel in a stunning fine art binding by the acclaimed Argentinian design bookbinder Sol Rébora. Austen's first novel uses the love stories of two sisters to explore the complexities and contradictions in the gendered expectations of the Regency era: a woman will be praised for her capacity to feel emotion (her sensibility), but not too much; a woman will be praised for her independent and responsible nature (her sense), but not too much. First published in late 1811 in three volumes, this is the first edition to appear in the United States, published in two volumes by Carey & Lea in an edition of only 1250 copies. Sol Rébora is an internationally recognized design bookbinder based in Buenos Aires. Her works embody a minimalistic elegance that is nevertheless subtly complex, as in the carefully structured multiple layers used here. They are not only visually stunning, but supremely tactile. From Rèbora's artist statement: "The cloth texture is achieved using silk with a patterned design that evokes the aesthetic of the time period in which the original edition was produced, creating a visual connection with antique paper. This design also appeals to the collective memory of how custom bindings from the early 19th century might have appeared, complete with deep-relief hot-stamping impressions." A magnificent, unique copy of an Austen first. Two 12mo volumes, 6.75'' x 4.25'' each. Modern full grey-pink design binding by Sol Rébora in Can Can structure with one layer of cotton cloth and two layers of Japanese paper, each element hand-painted with acrylics and textured with a patterned design impressed with deep-relief hot-stamping from silk; spines and boards stamped in dark grey. Cotton and abaca handmade paper grey-pink endpapers. 199, [1]; 189, [1] pages. Light pencil notation to fly leaf of Vol. I. Some offsetting marks to endpapers from earlier binding, archival paper repair to fly leaf; light browning to leaves, some staining. Solid.

Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: none. C. E. Brock (illustrator). Cloth,bright gilt stamping spine and cover, and gilt top edge. Near fine condition. No dust jackets. C. E. Brock (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. 6 volumes. 1907-1909. First printing in this English Idylls Series, with color illustrations by C. E. Brock. Hinges somewhat weak, with a few small tears. A VERY fine complete set. London - J.M. Dent & Co. / New York - E.P. Dutton & Co.

8vo., Second Impression thus, top lightly dust-soiled; original series binding of red ribbed cloth, upper board blocked in blind, back gilt extra, pictorial endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Published a month after the first EL edition. EL 21; Gilson E107; Seymour 44.0. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST HUGH THOMSON EDITION. 8vo. (7.8 x 5.4 inches). Illustrated with 40 full page line drawings. Tissue guard for the frontispiece still present. Pages are remarkably fresh and clean throughout. The book looks unread. Publishers original burgundy cloth binding with decorative blind stamped floral design to both boards, the front board lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Page edges untrimmed. Aside from a small and light blemish to the middle of the spine this is a very near fine, bright copy inside and out. A superior copy of a beautiful book. Becoming increasingly difficult to find in such lovely collectable condition in the publishers cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. London: H.G. Clarke and Co., 1844. Two small volumes. 13 x 9.5 cm (5 x 3.5 ins), 239, (1); 224 pp. Publishers full maroon morocco with coloured inserts, spines gilt with ornate gilt decoration to the boards, half titles bound in, all edges gilt, yellow eps. Professional re-backed with orig. spines laid down- some rubbing of coloured decorations. Previous owners name on front pastedowns. Strengthened at hinges, occasional age marks throughout. Two small 12mo volumes, each with half-titles and the rare chromolithographic pictorial titles likely used as wrapper, bearing the just discernible name of Gregory, Collins and Reynolds The pictorial title bound before its respective typographical title page; designed as a Renaissance-style architectural composition Gilson E2 described this binding as .I have one in publishers dark red morocco, both boards stamped with a Romantique design in gold and colours, all edges gilt, pale yellow endpapers, with the front illuminated wrapper bound in. Published in Clarke's Cabinet Series, this is the first separate edition of SS to appear after the copyright having lapsed in 1839.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. Limited Edition. Large octavo, 5 volumes, complete as published (two volumes of Austen's letters were issued nearly a decade later, and are sometimes offered together with this set). One of 1,000 limited sets, 950 of which were offered for sale. An exceptionally beautiful example of this notoriously fragile set, bound in the publisher's marbled boards with blue-ish cloth spines and printed spine labels; evocative of a Regency-period publisher's binding. Spines gently and evenly sunned, but a fine set, with handsome 20th century bookplates to each front paste-down. In the rare original dust jackets, somewhat darkened on the spines, and some with small stains and edge chips, but still at least very good. Aside form the many sets which were quickly bound up in leather, one surmises that surviving sets in the publisher's binding often had their jackets thrown away, as the bindings are more attractive. Each volume contains a bound-in replacement spine label at the rear, as issed. A superior, un-fooled-around-with example.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG minus. Cloth over boards with gilt titles and elaborate decoration. Illustrations by Chris Hammond. Boards with some general wear, superficial markings, soil, edge wear. Cocked. Rear board with rippling. Spine tips/joints with edge wear, soft creasing, tiny tearing. Corners rubbed, bowed, with small tears. Front bottom corner bumped. Endpapers with wear along gutters. Half Title Page with owner's signature, dated 1910. Some pages with browning/foxing to edges and a few with additional stains to margin. All gilt text blocks with wear, soil. Bottom and fore edge text blocks with liquid mark, a few pages with light marks to margins. See images for your satisfaction. Additional pictures can be provided upon request. Cabinet B.

First edition thus hard back binding in publisher's original navy paper covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back, red flecked page edges. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains (iv), 1000 pp. Light tanning to the text block edges. Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with rubbing of the paper across the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. C. E. Brock (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. 6 volumes. 1907-1909. First printing in this English Idylls Series, with color illustrations by C. E. Brock. With 3 of 6 original dust jackets, jackets not in one piece and the spines are missing, but still nice to have and they are quite clean. In the decorative gilt stamped cloth, tiniest bit of rubbing and occasional bump, but internally about fine, save for a couple of clippings glued in at the end of one volume, hinges strong, bright and clean throughout and in all, an excellent set. More images available on request.

[Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS, each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the other titles. Recently bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to burgundy labels, further gilt tooling to spines, and matching cloth over boards. All edges untrimmed. Nice clean copies, gently toned throughout. Presented in attractive new leather bindings. Book Collector No.271, 'The Great Illustrators'.

H. G. Clarke and Co. London. 1844. First edition thus. In two volumes. 12mo. 13.5 x 9.5cm. Handsomely bound in full morocco, with decorative panels tooled in gilt and in blind to both upper and lower boards of each volume. Gilt decorations to compartments of spine, all page edges gilt. Bound in - to both volumes, before the title pages, are the gilt and coloured decorated portion of the earliest Jane Austen wrappers, (though the concept was more like gift wrap than modern-day dust wrappers). See below for details on these fledgling dust wrappers that usually were used for annuals and other gift volumes. Very few of these have ever been available to see, let alone own. Sense and Sensibility was Austen's first book, originally published in 1811.Volume I is slightly rubbed to extremities, has an ownership inscription dated 1847. 239 pages, rear free endpaper is loose. Volume II is slightly more rubbed to spine and to extremities, head of spine is frayed. It has the same ownership inscription. 224 pages with one gathering comprising of pages 193-208 is partially loose and stands proud of the main body of text. Generally a very clean and sound set. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. FROM WIKIPEDIA. The oldest publishers' dust jacket now on record was issued in 1829 on an English annual, Friendship's Offering for 1830. It was discovered at the Bodleian Library in Oxford by Michael Turner, a former curator and Head of Conservation at the Library. Its existence was announced by Oxford in 2009. It is three years older than the previous oldest known jacket, which was discovered in 1934 by the English bookman John Carter on another English annual, The Keepsake for 1833 (issued in 1832). Both jackets are of the type that completely enclosed the books.Most jackets of this type were torn when they were opened and then discarded like gift-wrapping paper; they were not designed to be reused, and surviving examples are known on only a handful of titles. The scarcity of jackets of this type, together with the lack of written documentation from publishers of the period, makes it very hard to determine how widely these all-enclosing jackets were used during the period from 1820 to 1850, but they were likely common on ornately bound annuals and on some trade books.

Condition: Good. 1948. First edition thus. 373 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial paper covered boards with cloth spine. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Boards are slightly bowed.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Chris Hammond (illustrator). 1st Edition. A very good copy of the first edition of Sense and Sensibility with Chris Hammond illustrations, in the original decorative cloth binding. Chris Hammond was born Christiana Mary Demain Hammond and shortened her name to better compete in what was a male-dominated market for illustrators. This copy has been rebacked preserving the original spine and rebuilding the corners. The binding is clean and sound with a bright front board and a dulled spine. Light wear to edges. All page edges gilted. The original endpapers have been retained with professional repair at the joints. There is light marking around the joints at the rear endpaper. The contents are complete, sound and very clean, with light toning towards the page edges. There is some light freckling to the top part of the verso of the final page, the final blank and the recto of the rear free endpaper. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.