Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson Large Paper copy, London: George Allen 1894, half-title, full-page frontispiece and illustrations to text by Hugh Thomson all China paper proofs, decorative initials, Large Paper edition of 250 copies for England and 25 copies for America, additionally signed by Thomson to head of title, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, with the original red buckram covers bound at rear, along with the gilt decorated 'peacock' green cloth spine and upper panel and matching portion of the original pale blue pictorial dust jacket also bound at rear, contemporary crushed full green morocco gilt by Riviere, stamped to front turn-in 'Bound by P Riviere & Son for L.S Montague 1895', gilt foliate broad turn-ins, gilt foliate devices to covers and spine, spine faded to brown, large 8vo (26 x 17.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Gilson E78. A unique copy of the large paper issue of the 'Peacock' edition of Pride & Prejudice. Bound for Louis Samuel Montagu (1869-1927), financier and political activist. Highlights of Montagu's famous collection include Lewis Carroll's working copy of the 1865 true first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with 10 original pencil drawings by John Tenniel (Christie's sale 1970) and Through the Looking Glass with 22 original Tenniel preliminary drawings. The first title was also bound by Riviere, dated 1899, with the same stamp. The dust jacket for the standard Peacock edition bound in to this copy is one of two known examples that we have traced on the market.
Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson Large Paper copy, London: George Allen 1894, half-title, full-page frontispiece and illustrations to text by Hugh Thomson all China paper proofs, decorative initials, Large Paper edition of 250 copies for England and 25 copies for America, additionally signed by Thomson to head of title, top edge gilt, remainder untrimmed, with the original red buckram covers bound at rear, along with the gilt decorated 'peacock' green cloth spine and upper panel and matching portion of the original pale blue pictorial dust jacket also bound at rear, contemporary crushed full green morocco gilt by Riviere, stamped to front turn-in 'Bound by P Riviere & Son for L.S Montague 1895', gilt foliate broad turn-ins, gilt foliate devices to covers and spine, spine faded to brown, large 8vo (26 x 17.5 cm) (Quantity: 1) Gilson E78. A unique copy of the large paper issue of the 'Peacock' edition of Pride & Prejudice. Bound for Louis Samuel Montagu (1869-1927), financier and political activist. Highlights of Montagu's famous collection include Lewis Carroll's working copy of the 1865 true first edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with 10 original pencil drawings by John Tenniel (Christie's sale 1970) and Through the Looking Glass with 22 original Tenniel preliminary drawings. The first title was also bound by Riviere, dated 1899, with the same stamp. The dust jacket for the standard Peacock edition bound in to this copy is one of two known examples that we have traced on the market.
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