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Lot 131

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$1,500 - 2,500
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$4,480
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[Fine Bindings] Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice


London: George Allen, (1894). Large paper edition (one of 275 unnumbered copies). Large 8vo. xxvii, (i), 476, (2) pp. Preface by George Saintsbury. Illustrations on China paper by Hugh Thomson. Finely bound in full brick red niger, stamped in gilt and in black, multi-colored leather pictorial onlay on front board depicting Elizabeth Bennett reading Jane's letters (after the frontispiece: "Reading Jane's Letters), some spotting to lower front board; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; for Asprey, London. Gilson E78

A near-fine copy, handsomely bound.

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