Sense and Sensibility. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson (1896)

Author: Jane Austen

Book ID: 68415

Price: 850.00

Sense and Sensibility. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. With an Introduction by Austin Dobson. London: Macmillan, 1896. First Edition Thus. Pp xv, 342, [6]. Bound in full crimson morocco, gilt fillet boarder to boards, spine with raised bands , compartments ruled, embellished & lettered in gilt. A fine bright copy.

The first edition with Hugh Thompson’s illustrations, twenty-one in all.

A satirical & comic work offering a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

Hugh Thompson was an Irish Illustrator born at Coleraine near Derry. He illustrated several of Austen’s work in the late 19th century. 

A beautiful gift edition.

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