London - 1899 - Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
In a Decorated Binding With Illustrations by Hammond
Austen, Jane; [Hammond, Chris, illus.] SENSE AND SENSIBILITY London George Allen 1899
First edition with Hammond' s lillustrations. Profusely illustrated with black and white illustrations by Chris Hammond. 8vo, publisher's original green cloth decorated with elaborate overall gilt floral designs and gilt lettering on the upper cover and on the spine, top edge gilt. xviii, 389 pp. A very pleasing copy, bright and clean with just a touch of mellowing to the spine.
A HANDSOME ILLUSTRATED PRINTING OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. A charming copy of Austen's earliest published work, originally written as a collection of letters entitled ELINOR AND MARIANNE.
For the sale of SENSE AND SENSIBILITY Miss Austen received £150, which seemed to her a magnificent sum. In a letter to her sister Cassandra, dated April 25, 1811, she writes: 'No, indeed, I am never too busy to think of S. and S.: I can no more forget it than a mother can forget her sucking child...the incomes remain as they were, but I will get them altered if I can... I think (Mrs. Knatchbull) will like my Elinor, but cannot build on anything else.' She confided to her family that 'Anne Steele never succeeded in catching the doctor.' - Preface from another copy.
$US595
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