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Prize inscription inked to front endpaper.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daniel Defoe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39490039283883,"sku":"DEFOE1889","price":175.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0456\/6872\/8995\/products\/SAM_0422_2.jpg?v=1616946022"},{"product_id":"pride-and-prejudice-by-jane-austen-1895-second-peacock-edition-illustrated-by-hugh-thomson-1","title":"PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BY JANE AUSTEN 1895 SECOND PEACOCK EDITION, ILLUSTRATED BY HUGH THOMSON","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e[AUSTEN, JANE].\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePride and Prejudice, with a Preface by George Saintsbury and Illustrations by Hugh Thomson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eLondon: George Allen, 1895.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSecond 'Peacock Edition'. Hardcover. Cloth-bound. Octavo (185 x 130 mm.), pp. xxvii, [i], 476 [ii]. Publisher's original blue cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine with the famous image of a fully blossomed peacock perched on a sundial. All page edges gilt. Coated endpapers. Half-title present. 160 line drawings by Hugh Thomson including frontispiece, decorated title page, part-page and full-page illustrations, decorative initials and chapter headings. There is a facsimile inscription: \" To J. Comyns Carr, In acknowledgment of all I owe to his friendship and advice, these illustrations are gratefully inscribed. Hugh Thomson.\" The Preface is provided by George Saintsbury. Printed at the Chiswick Press:- Charles Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, London. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, slight lean to spine and bumping to spine ends. Covers and contents near immaculate. 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