London: Avalon Press, 1949. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITION to be illustrated by Robert Austin, with an appreciation by V.S. Pritchett. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.246 [2]. blank. With eight colour plates. Elegantly bound in blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, twin burgundy morocco title labels..... More

London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907-1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRSTS THUS, the complete first Brock Colour editions. Six volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 19cm). Each volume with 24 colour illustrations by Brock, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Recent biscuit-brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson in each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt titles, floral design in blind to covers, white endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contents quite clean..... More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. [English Literature] HUGH THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342; [2], advertisements. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece. Elegantly bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, twin blue morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled sides, top edge..... More

London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis.  Publisher's patterned grey cloth..... More

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1882. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. In six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), with tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving by Pickering to each volume. Finely bound circa 1920s by Roger de Coverley in half mid-blue crushed morocco, gilt, over marbled sides with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally clean..... More

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1875-1883. New Edition. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm), Pickering's engraved frontispiece illustrations to each volume. Publisher's green cloth, blind embossed floral panel design to boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Housed in an elegant fleece-lined slipcase..... More

London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. [Literary Classic] 'New' Edition, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 332; [2], advertisements. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Pickering. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind-stamped border to covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents generally clean with a couple of vintage..... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951. With preface and notes; pp.133. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Bound in the publisher's line-backed blue/grey boards with title label to backstrip, edges untrimmed. A little dustiness and toning else a fine, unopened copy in the original glassine (slightly nicked). The third and final volume of Jane Austen's..... More