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Pride and Prejudice.

Pride and Prejudice. With a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.

Publication details: George Allen,[1894,]

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The first trade edition with Thomson's illustrations, and the first with the striking Peacock design - it is also the very first edition of the text to be illustrated throughout; a sumptuous production, and a superb copy

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FIRST 'PEACOCK' EDITION, frontispiece (tissue-guarded) and line-drawings throughout by Hugh Thomson, with his decorated initials and headpieces to each chapter, a little spotting to prelims and final page of text, pp. xxvii, 476, crown 8vo, original dark blue-green cloth with an elaborate Thomson design to backstrip and upper board stamped in gilt, the spine leaning gently, a tony amunt of wear at corner-tips and a hint of rubbing to extremities, the lower board with a couple of tiny faint waterspots and a some other very light marks, a.e.g., bookseller ticket at foot of rear pastedown, very good

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