EMMA BY JANE AUSTEN 1899 ILLUSTRATED BY HUGH THOMSON

[AUSTEN, JANE]. Emma. London: Macmillan and Co., 1899.

REPRINT. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (19 x 12 x 3 cm); pp. xviii, 437. English text, with an introduction by Austin Dobson. Bound in publisher's original crimson cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to upper board and backstrip; all page edges gilt; decorative endpapers with a peacock design printed in yellow; half-title; tissue-guarded frontispiece and 39 full-page illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Spine lightly dulled, the ends a little bumped, with minor marks to rear board. Interior largely well-preserved, with some light scattered foxing mostly affecting the tissue guard. Without previous ownership markings. A lovely copy of this fourth printing with the Hugh Thomson illustrations.