[AUSTEN, JANE]. Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.
Reprint. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (18.5cm x 12cm x 3cm); pp. xviii, 437. English text, with an introduction by Austin Dobson. Bound in publisher's original red cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; all page edges gilt; decorative endpapers; half-title; line drawings throughout by Hugh Thomson, including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Minor bumping to spine ends. Interior very well-preserved. Previous owner details neatly to half-title page. An excellent copy and scarce thus.
Note: Second edition thus. The original Art Nouveau board and endpaper designs by the foremost artist A. Turbayne. Hugh Thomson was one of the most notable book illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his illustrations for Jane Austen's novels remain widely regarded as classics in the field.
