Austen Jane Jacobs Joseph (5 results)

HARDBACK TURQ & GOLD. Condition: fair. General wear: faded covers, foxing, previous owner marking FEP, racking, cracked hinges Text and illustrations are clear except for last few pages DATE PUBLISHED: 1898 EDITION: 504. HAMMOND, CHRIS (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First thus. xxviii,389 pp. Bound in green cloth with elaborate gilt stamping. Good+ with lean to spine, wear and splitting to cloth along gutters, a few discreet repairs along spine edges, small wear spot to rear board. An enduringly popular illustrated version of the classic novel.…

Condition: Acceptable. 1st Edition Thus. First Edition thus. 1898. Illustrated by Joseph Jacobs, 12mo. Green cloth covered boards with gilt lettering to front and spine. Front cover is decorated with floral decoration (four squares in the corners with a rectangle in the middle); Matching decorative illustration to spine. Spine is cocked with some cracking between signatures; Missing the pages following "The End" including rear free endpaper. Dark green endpapers with residue from bookplate to front pastedown. B/W illustrations throughout. All outer edges are gilt.…

HARDCOVER GREEN. Condition: VERY GOOD. FIRST ALLEN EDITION beautifully decorated with gold gilt flowers and lettering on cover and spine, deckled pages, illustrations throughout book, slightly age toned pages, slightly bumped corners, spine slightly shifted, general wear. Custom clamshell box in very very good condition with leather label on spine with gold gilt lettering. DATE PUBLISHED: 1899 EDITION: 389. HAMMOND, CHRIS (illustrator).…

First edition thus. Duodecimo, pp., xviii, 389, [3] blank, plus frontispiece. With 64 line drawings by Hammond within text, 11 of which are full page plates included in the pagination; headpieces to chapters, list of illustrations, and introduction; title-page wholly drawn. Publisher's smooth dark blue-green cloth; elaborate floral gilding and lettering to spine and upper board; top edge gilt. Small, neat ownership inscription of one Dorothy Percival in ink to front free end-paper. Minor restoration to lower joint, head and tail spine, expertly executed and barely perceptible. A few light spots of foxing to edges but contents generally bright and fresh. A very good copy. The first edition with Hammond's pen-and-ink illustrations. Hammond was 'was the first identifiably female illustrator of Jane Austen's novels, illustrating three Austen titles for two publishers. (Loosey, 'Illustrated Austen'). A recent critic, writing on illustrated Austen editions argues that Hammond was ' the finest artist of this period [.] her decisive and characterized pen-and-ink drawings are neither whimsical nor over decorative' (Southam, 'Texts and Editions'). An attractive copy. Gilson E94. Loosey, Devoney, 'The Golden Age for Illustrated Austen: From Peacocks to Photoplays'; Southam, Brian 'Texts and Editions' in A Companion to Jane Austen, pp., 5160.…