Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan, 1899. Fourth Edition Thus. Pp xvi, 342, [4]. Publisher’s brown cloth boards, title blocked in gilt to upper cover & spine, with boards blind embossed with floral decoration. A nice bright copy.

The fourth novel by Jane Austen, originally published in 1815.

Set in Highbury, England, in the early 19th Century, ‘Emma’ follows about a year in the life of the young woman Emma Woodhouse, who decides to try her hand at matchmaking, finding matches for her new best friend, Harriet.

Delightfully illustrated by Irish born artist Hugh Thompson, who illustrated several of Austen’s works in the late 19th century.

This edition was first published in 1896.