Pride and Prejudice 1892 First Illustrated "Garrett" Edition Jane Austen leather

Description: Pride and Prejudiceby Jane Austenillustrated by Edmund Garrett Publisher and Year: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, ca. 1892-Edition: First edition illustrated by the famed illustrator and painter Edmund Garrett (1853–1929), early printing. Pride and Prejudice was originally published in 1813, with the first printings commanding well into the six figures. In the 1890s, several publishers began producing a variety of illustrated editions of the novel in deluxe bindings, with notable examples including the famous "Peacock" edition illustrated by Hugh Thompson (1894), the R. Brimley Johnson illustrated edition (1892), and the Edmund Garrett illustrated edition (1892). The Edmund Garrett edition was variously printed by two publishing houses in Boston (first by Roberts Brothers, and then simultaneously with Little, Brown and Co.) in a multitude of binding options, with the precise priority of many variants unresolvable. Bibliographic reference: Gilson (1997). -Condition and Description: Publisher's brown crushed morocco leather over vertically-ribbed teal cloth, lettered and ornamented in gilt, green and gold marbled endpapers, hubbed spine, top edge gilt, octavo (~8.5" x 5.75"). Three total illustrations: a photogravure illustrated frontispiece of Jane Austen with double tissue guard plus two additional illustrations with tissue guards, as pictured. Hinges and binding tight. Text free and clear of writing and underlining. Tips and edges lightly rubbed. The spine leather is rubbed and faded to a lighter brown along the spine strip and along the intersection with the front boards. Discreet repair to the crack in the leather just below the second spine hub and the top inch of the exterior joint of the spine and the front board (review the last two pictures a closeup of each, respectively). Top edge of the front board bumped. A bit of spotting on the foredge and bottom edge of the text block. A beautiful example of an early illustrated edition of Jane Austen's classic romance novel. -“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”-Inventory ID: 537 - 247 - 961

Price: 800 USD

Location: North Haven, Connecticut

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