Pride and prejudice / - a novel by Jane Austen; illustrated by Chris. Hammond with an introduction by William Keith Leask.
Date
[1898?]
Collection
Creator(s)
Jane Austen, Chris Hammond, W. Keith Leask, Talwin Morris, David Rodger, Gresham Publishing
Code
111115
Catalogue link
After 1903, this series was published by Blackie.
Uniform series design: Design A: (c.1899): pale grey endpapers. Ultramarine cloth boards. Design mainly in white (in mirror image on front and back covers): diagonal arabesques (stylised feathers) dividing the covers into two outlined panels, each containing three (except for the upper front cover - two) "peacock's crest" motifs with green reniform centres; white dots in the corners; title only on upper front cover in gilt serifed italic capitals. On spine, within a white frame, nine feather ribs branching from centre base, the three middle ones bearing the "peacock's crest" motif; in each corner, one further such motif with a white dot. Unsigned (LO/C32). From the collection of David Rodger LO/C32. xxi, (one) leaf, 392 pages, (6) leaves of plates : illustrations, frontispiece ; 21cm.