Pride & Prejudice. Two Volumes. Edited by R. Brimley Johnson. With Illustrations by William C. Cooke. London: J.M. Dent, 1894. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s smooth pale green buckram, title lettered in gilt to spines with title within gilt medallion to upper covers. Light soiling to upper cover of volume one, otherwise a nice bright set.

Published as part of the ‘The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes.’ Its popularity ensured that several editions followed.

Henry Matthew Brock studied at Cambridge School of Art and became an illustrator and cartoonist. He contributed to Punch and worked in advertising, however most of his work was for classic Victorian and Edwardian fiction.