GIFTS 84 Large-Paper Limited Edition Of The Novels Of Jane Austen, Beautifully Illustrated 113AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels and Letters. Oxford, 1923. Five volumes. Octavo, full red morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. $5500 Lovely large-paper limited edition of Austen’s novels and letters, one of only 1000 sets produced, illustrated with over 40 plates, with frontispieces in color. Includes Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park and Emma. This text of this edition is based on the collation of the early editions by R. W. Chapman. The Clarendon editions were the first to use “contemporary illustrations”: “An undated memorandum in the Press’s files states ‘The publishers are bitterly opposed to any imaginative illustrations, and would cheerfully have no illustrations at all. But they would be in favour of a few objective illustrations’” (Gilson E150). Each volume with additional paper spine label tipped in at rear. Fine. “For What Do We Live, But To Make Sport For Our Neighbors, And Laugh At Them In Our Turn?” 114(THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London, 1894. Octavo, publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated dark green pictorial cloth. $6000 First “Peacock” edition of Jane Austen’s second and most popular novel, the first illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with 101 charming line drawings, in lovely publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated cloth depicting a peacock spreading its feathers. The illustrator of this lovely edition, Hugh Thomson, “takes first place… among the genteel book illustrators” (Harthan, 238). “His style reflected the nostalgia of the time, his fine line drawings of rural characters and gentle countrified society appealed to the imagination of the public” (Olivia Fitzpatrick). He had a knack for “period costumes, coaches and horses, and elegant furniture; and his brisk style give his work irresistible charm” (Hodnett, 218). First published in 1813. This trade edition preceded by a limited large-paper edition of 275 copies. Near-fine.
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