[AUSTEN, JANE]. Sense and Sensibility. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan and Co., 1897.
Hardcover. Reprint. Cloth-bound. Octavo (165 x 120mm), pp. [xvi], 342. Publisher's original red cloth elaborately blocked and lettered in gilt to front cover and spine, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, half-title present, line drawings by Hugh Thomson including frontispiece with tissue-guard. Ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown belonging to R. A. Ingram. Condition: Near fine. Binding tight and secure, the hinges perfect, minor bumping to spine ends, points and edges sharp, covers and contents remarkably clean. Scarce thus. Listing 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.
