London, J.M. Dent, 1898
One of 250 copies - specially bound for subscribers. A handsome copy of this desirable edition illustrated in colour, from the Steventon edition of Austen's works limited to 250 sets specially bound for subscribers.
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 for this set published by Dent in 1898.
Steventon edition, number 158 of 250 copies, specially bound for subscribers; 2 vols, small 8vo; full-page colour illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock, including frontispiece, with tissue guards, neat repairs to hinges of volume II, else unmarked internally; contemporary half maroon calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, spines evenly sunned, light rubbing to extremities, else an attractive example.
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 for this set published by Dent in 1898.
Steventon edition, number 158 of 250 copies, specially bound for subscribers; 2 vols, small 8vo; full-page colour illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock, including frontispiece, with tissue guards, neat repairs to hinges of volume II, else unmarked internally; contemporary half maroon calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, gilt in compartments, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, spines evenly sunned, light rubbing to extremities, else an attractive example.
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