Pride and Prejudice. Illustrated by Chris Hammond. With an Introduction by William Keith Leask. London: Gresham Publishing, [1900]. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s blue pictorial cloth boards, with gilt decoration to spine. Light shelf-wear to boards, lacks rear endpaper, otherwise a very good copy.

Illustrated with six beautiful line engravings by English painter and illustrator Christiana Mary Demain Hammond. Binding design by Talwin Morris. 

A charming turn-of-the-century edition of Austen’s beloved masterpiece, featuring the delicate illustrations of Chris Hammond. Hammond was one of the most popular illustrators of Jane Austen’s work in the late Victorian period, and her detailed pen-and-ink drawings, which appear throughout the text, capture the manners, costumes, and quiet social dramas of the novel with period grace. This edition, the first to pair Hammond’s distinctive artwork with Leask’s scholarly introduction, offers a delightful fusion of Regency wit and Victorian visual interpretation, presenting the timeless story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy in an attractive binding.