EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN 1898 ILLUSTRATED BY CHRIS HAMMOND

EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN 1898 ILLUSTRATED BY CHRIS HAMMOND

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[AUSTEN, JANE]. Emma. With an Introduction by Joseph Jacobs and Illustrations by Chris Hammond. London: George Allen, 1898.

First edition thus. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (18.5cm x 12cm x 3.5cm); pp. xxvi, 504. English text, with an introduction by Joseph Jacobs and illustrations throughout by Chris Hammond. Publisher's original blue cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine; all page edges gilt; blue coated endpapers; half-title; illustrated with full page and vignette engravings. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure with the joints and hinges intact. Covers beautifully preserved with very slight bumping to spine ends. Contents excellent with some trivial faint spotting and a previous owner name neatly to front endpaper. Scarce thus.