BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817). Pride & Prejudice, London, 1894, 8vo, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, original highly elaborate pictorial cloth gilt with a peacock's tail design in gilt (lower cover dampstained). FIRST "PEACOCK" EDITION.

BINDING - Jane AUSTEN (1775-1817).  Pride and Prejudice ... With a Preface by George Saintsbury. London: George Allen, 1894. 8vo (181 x 125mm). Half title, publisher's ornament on verso of half title, wood-engraved frontispiece by Hugh Thomson, peacock motif on title, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, initials (some spotting and staining to first few leaves including title and tissue guard, some light mainly marginal spotting and staining, a few darker spots). Original highly elaborate pictorial cloth gilt after a design by Hugh Thomson, the upper cover with a peacock's tail design in gilt and with peacock feather design in gilt to spine, gilt edges, black endpapers (some relatively inconspicuous dampstaining to the upper cover, lower cover heavily dampstained and with white marking). Provenance: "Sold by Charles Thurnam & Sons, Carlisle" (small bookseller's label on corner of front pastedown). FIRST "PEACOCK" EDITION, and the first edition of Jane Austen's perennial novel to be fully illustrated. Gilson E78; Spielmann Hugh Thomson 12.