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Price: US$315.46 + shipping
Description: Hardback, Demy 8vo. (8 x 5 inches.) Attractive light green cloth with elaborate gold decoration on spine & front cover. Top page edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. In very good condition. Corners slightly bumped. Some minor darkening and handling marks to cloth. Some handling marks to rear side. Endpapers darkened/tanned, bookseller label to front ?Albert Gait, Grimsby.? Endpapers starting to crack at front hinge, small neat glue repair at rear. Some mild foxing foxing and handling marks to pages and edges, page edges rough/uncut. Else a very good clean and tight 1st edition. 308pp. Illustrated with 24 colour plates by Charles E. Brock.
Seller: PROCTOR / THE ANTIQUE MAP & BOOKSHOP, DORCHESTER, United Kingdom
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. J M Dent & Co, E P Dutton & Co, London and New York, 1908.
Price: US$356.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy in the original decorative cloth binding with 24 coloured illustrations (including frontispiece and title page) by C E Brock. Part of the 'Series of English Idylls' and now scarce. This edition is notable for number and quality of the colour illustrations, which capture Austen's characters and the humour in her writing well. The binding is a pale green cloth with elaborate gilt decoration to the front board and spine. The front board is bright with a small bump to the bottom corner. Spine slightly darkened with some pulling to ends. Back board with a couple of small pale marks and bump to the corner tip. Top page edges gilt; remaining edges untrimmed. Internally the decorative endpapers are present with a bookplate on the fep. The free endpapers are toned as usual. There is some wear and a small repair at the rear endpaper joint. The contents are in near fine clean condition with light toning to paper, some spotting on the tissue guard to the frontispiece (mainly around the edges and a mark on the initial blank.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Austen, Jane. SENSE & SENSIBILITY [The English Idylls series]. J. M. Dent & Co.,, London, 1908.
Price: US$2340.52 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine to fine, very bright volume in the publisher's highly decorative vellum binding, extravagent gilt-decoration to front board and spine (to Brock's design). Tissue-guarded, colour frontispiece plate, a total of 24 colour plates, internal hinges all good, endpapers toned as is common, neat name and date, 1909, to the top fo the front free endpaper. A near fine copy in a particularly attractive binding of this very rare edition. Size: 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
Price: US$2734.85 + shipping
Description: The original signed illustration for the 1908 edition of Sense and Sensibility published by J. M. Dent & Co. in their Series of English Idylls. Charles Brock and his brother Henry prided themselves on the historical accuracy of their illustrations; they collected antique furniture and clothing, and used friends and relations to model them in their Cambridge studio. Charles Brock was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in the same year as publication of these illustrations. The illustration depicts Marianne's distress when, she expecting the arrival of Mr Willoughby, Colonel Brandon appears instead. Original pen-and-ink water colour illustration. Paper size: 38 x 26.5 cm. Image size: 29 x 18 cm. Framed size: 50.1 x 37.2 cm. In excellent condition. Small loss of paper lower left margin, pin holes top margin. Archivally re-backed. Presented in a hand-made white gold leaf frame with conservation acrylic glazing.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2734.85 + shipping
Description: The original signed illustration for the 1908 edition of Sense and Sensibility published by J. M. Dent & Co. in their Series of English Idylls. Charles Brock and his brother Henry prided themselves on the historical accuracy of their illustrations; they collected antique furniture and clothing, and used friends and relations to model them in their Cambridge studio. Charles Brock was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in the same year as publication of these illustrations. The illustration shows Marianne walking out alone after a sleepless night weeping over Mr Willoughby. Original pen-and-ink water colour illustration. Paper size: 38 x 26.5 cm. Image size: 29.5 x 17 cm. Framed size: 50.1 x 37.2 cm. In excellent condition. Pin holes top margin and small stain. Archivally re-backed. Presented in a hand-made white gold leaf frame with conservation acrylic glazing.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2862.05 + shipping
Description: The original signed illustration for the 1908 edition of Sense and Sensibility published by J. M. Dent & Co. in their Series of English Idylls. Charles Brock and his brother Henry prided themselves on the historical accuracy of their illustrations; they collected antique furniture and clothing, and used friends and relations to model them in their Cambridge studio. Charles Brock was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in the same year as publication of these illustrations. The scene is Edward Ferrars joining Elinor and Marianne as they are out walking. Original pen-and-ink water colour illustration. Paper size: 38 x 26.5 cm. Image size: 30 x 19 cm. Framed size: 50.1 x 37.2 cm. In excellent condition. Pin holes top margin. Archivally re-backed. Presented in a hand-made white gold leaf frame with conservation acrylic glazing.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom