With twenty-four coloured illustrations by C.E. Brock
London, J.M. Dent & Co., 1909
Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain and irrepressibly witty, she organises the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village and plays matchmaker with devastating effect...
First edition in this form; 8vo (200 X 125 mm); colour frontispiece, decorative title-page, a further 23 colour plates, spotting to frontispiece tissue-guard but not offset onto illustration or title-page; publisher's light green cloth, sumptuously gilt panelled to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, spine-ends and corners bumped, light dust-soiling but in all, commensurate with age and still very good.
First edition in this form; 8vo (200 X 125 mm); colour frontispiece, decorative title-page, a further 23 colour plates, spotting to frontispiece tissue-guard but not offset onto illustration or title-page; publisher's light green cloth, sumptuously gilt panelled to upper cover and spine, top edge gilt and others untrimmed, spine-ends and corners bumped, light dust-soiling but in all, commensurate with age and still very good.
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