PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 1899 ( Finely bound in Half Leather with Slipcase )
Published in London in two volumes in 1899 (here bound in one) this is a very attractively bound English Victorian edition of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, a small format measuring just over 6 inches tall by 4 inches approx., bound in a recent half leather binding titled and decorated in gilt, with five raised bands, marbled paper covered boards, housed in a red cloth backed slipcase, internally illustrated with two colour plates by the artist H. M. Brock. Binding is in excellent condition, internally light browning to pages else contents in good condition.
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