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Pride and Prejudice.
The third printing of the 'Peacock Edition' of Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, with stunning gilt cover design by Hugh Thomson.
Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles; he was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were recognised while still a teenager. Consequently Thomson was trained by John Vinycomb, the head designer at Marcus Ward & Co., a prominent Belfast publishing house. He subsequently moved to England, working from 1883 for MacMillan & Co., illustrating all six of Jane Austen's novels and other literary classics. By 1900 he had become one of the most popular illustrators of his time. However, during the First World War there was less demand for his style of work and he took a job with the Board of Trade until his untimely death from heart disease.
First edition, third printing of the Peacock edition; 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm); frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, slight offsetting to endpapers, mild spotting, ink stain towards edges of text block pp13-18; publisher's dark green cloth with the stunning gilt depiction of a peacock on an urn to upper cover and related gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed with minor areas of fraying and loss, upper hinge split, a particularly bright copy, very good indeed; [xxvii], [1], 476pp.
Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles; he was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were recognised while still a teenager. Consequently Thomson was trained by John Vinycomb, the head designer at Marcus Ward & Co., a prominent Belfast publishing house. He subsequently moved to England, working from 1883 for MacMillan & Co., illustrating all six of Jane Austen's novels and other literary classics. By 1900 he had become one of the most popular illustrators of his time. However, during the First World War there was less demand for his style of work and he took a job with the Board of Trade until his untimely death from heart disease.
First edition, third printing of the Peacock edition; 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm); frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, slight offsetting to endpapers, mild spotting, ink stain towards edges of text block pp13-18; publisher's dark green cloth with the stunning gilt depiction of a peacock on an urn to upper cover and related gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed with minor areas of fraying and loss, upper hinge split, a particularly bright copy, very good indeed; [xxvii], [1], 476pp.
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The third printing of the 'Peacock Edition' of Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, with stunning gilt cover design by Hugh Thomson.
Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles; he was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were recognised while still a teenager. Consequently Thomson was trained by John Vinycomb, the head designer at Marcus Ward & Co., a prominent Belfast publishing house. He subsequently moved to England, working from 1883 for MacMillan & Co., illustrating all six of Jane Austen's novels and other literary classics. By 1900 he had become one of the most popular illustrators of his time. However, during the First World War there was less demand for his style of work and he took a job with the Board of Trade until his untimely death from heart disease.
First edition, third printing of the Peacock edition; 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm); frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, slight offsetting to endpapers, mild spotting, ink stain towards edges of text block pp13-18; publisher's dark green cloth with the stunning gilt depiction of a peacock on an urn to upper cover and related gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed with minor areas of fraying and loss, upper hinge split, a particularly bright copy, very good indeed; [xxvii], [1], 476pp.
Hugh Thomson (1860-1920) renowned illustrator, in pen and ink, of classic titles; he was born in Ireland where his skills as an illustrator were recognised while still a teenager. Consequently Thomson was trained by John Vinycomb, the head designer at Marcus Ward & Co., a prominent Belfast publishing house. He subsequently moved to England, working from 1883 for MacMillan & Co., illustrating all six of Jane Austen's novels and other literary classics. By 1900 he had become one of the most popular illustrators of his time. However, during the First World War there was less demand for his style of work and he took a job with the Board of Trade until his untimely death from heart disease.
First edition, third printing of the Peacock edition; 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm); frontispiece, title vignette and illustrations by Hugh Thomson, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper recto, slight offsetting to endpapers, mild spotting, ink stain towards edges of text block pp13-18; publisher's dark green cloth with the stunning gilt depiction of a peacock on an urn to upper cover and related gilt decoration to spine, all edges gilt, extremities slightly rubbed with minor areas of fraying and loss, upper hinge split, a particularly bright copy, very good indeed; [xxvii], [1], 476pp.
