Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
First edition of the famed "Peacock Edition" of Austen's beloved classic, being the first fully illustrated edition and a high point of Victorian illustrated bindings. Featuring 160 line drawings by Hugh Thomson and a preface by George Saintsbury, this is arguably the most famous and collectible later edition of Pride and Prejudice.
London: George Allen, 1894. Bound in publisher's green cloth gilt stamped, front board decorated with the iconic peacock motif in gilt, all edges gilt, black coated endpapers; pp. xxvii, [1], 476, [1]. Illustrated throughout, frontispiece tissue guard intact. Expertly rebacked with the original spine cloth, horizontal tear to the spine cloth visible but now secured, spine gilt a bit dulled, minor forward lean to binding, light general shelfwear and rubbing to boards with a touch of fraying to corners. Light toning internally, else quite clean and fine. A nice copy.