Comprising: Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Sense & Sensibility; Mansfield Park; Pride and Prejudice.
London, J. M. Dent & Co., 1898
Complete set of Brock colour illustrated first editions. A handsome set of this very desirable edition. C.E. Brock originally illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Macmillan in 1895, with black and white line drawings. He then collaborated with his brother H.M. Brock on this set for Dent in 1898.
First Brock editions; 10 volumes, small 8vo; illustrated with numerous colour plates by the Brock brothers, edited by R.B. Johnson, the odd, minor spot to a few margins in some volumes, a little more evident to vol. I of Pride and Prejudice with browning and offsetting to half-title of vol. II, upper joint to vol. I of Emma split but firm, otherwise very good; publisher's grey cloth decorated in blue and gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, darkening to spines and some light dust-soling and a few minor marks or spots to some boards, slight rippling to cloth on the upper boards of Mansfield Park (vol. II) and Northanger Abbey, otherwise a very good set-plus.
First Brock editions; 10 volumes, small 8vo; illustrated with numerous colour plates by the Brock brothers, edited by R.B. Johnson, the odd, minor spot to a few margins in some volumes, a little more evident to vol. I of Pride and Prejudice with browning and offsetting to half-title of vol. II, upper joint to vol. I of Emma split but firm, otherwise very good; publisher's grey cloth decorated in blue and gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, darkening to spines and some light dust-soling and a few minor marks or spots to some boards, slight rippling to cloth on the upper boards of Mansfield Park (vol. II) and Northanger Abbey, otherwise a very good set-plus.
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