Pride and Prejudice. With an Introduction by R.W. Chapman. London: Oxford University Press, 1948. Rebound in half leather over marbled boards, spine compartments with title labels in gilt to second & fourth. A fine bright copy, handsomely hand bound.

A 1948 reprint of the “World’s Classics” edition of Pride and Prejudice, which was originally issued in 1929, with an introduction by R.W. Chapman.

Robert William Chapman (1881–1960) was a distinguished British scholar and editor, renowned for his textual research on Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. His Oxford editions of Austen’s novels (beginning in 1923) established the standard critical text for much of the 20th century.