"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Pride and Prejudice. With coloured illustrations by C.E. Brock.
London: J.M. Dent, 1907. [English Literature] FIRST DENT EDITION with colour illustrations fully revised by Charles Brock for this edition. Small octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 336. With twenty-four colour plate illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Charles Brock. Publisher's original pale green cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling to spines and uppers, decorative endpapers printed in green; top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents clean, no inscriptions, bookplate of Phyllis Logan (possibly the 'Downton Abbey' actress), endpapers toned as usual. Discreet, near-invisible mend to gutters, covers remain bright, minor dustiness to rear board. The timeless tale of the incisive Lizzie Bennett and the incorrigible Mr. Darcy, navigating what first seems to them a miserable acquaintance but eventually a well-earned romance. Item #75990
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