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, with both colour and black & white drawings 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, offsetting to half titles and final leaf versos from patterned endpapers, original upper covers and spines bound-in at rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, handsomely bound in blue half morocco gilt, all contained in a cloth slip-case
First Brock editions; 10 volumes, small 8vo; illustrated with numerous colour plates by the Brock brothers, edited by R.B. Johnson, offsetting to half titles and final leaf versos from patterned endpapers, original upper covers and spines bound-in at rear, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, handsomely bound in blue half morocco gilt, all contained in a cloth slip-case
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