Sense and Sensibility (Hardcover, 1899)

With an introduction by Joseph Jacobs and illustrations by Chris Hammond. Cover design by A A Turbayne, with his distinctive AT monogram in the shape of a scarab beetle. Chris. Hammond, born Christiana Mary Demain Hammond (18601900), was the first identifiably female illustrator of Jane Austen's novels. She illustrated three titles for two publishers: Emma (1898) and Sense and Sensibility (1899) for George Allen and a sparsely illustrated Pride and Prejudice for Gresham Publishing (1900). She produced the latter at the end of her life, cut short by illness near the same age as Jane Austen herself was when she died. Hammonds heavily illustrated editions emulate some visual aspects of her predecessors. The hand-drawn title pages for both her Emma and Sense and Sensibility are near-replicas of Thomsons Peacock edition, but this may have been at the behest of her publisher. Hammonds Austen illustrations are, on the whole, more serious, less whimsical, and more visually surprising than Thomsons or the Brocks. Read more about the impact she made on Austen illustration in chapter three of The Making of Jane Austen.

Hardcover. English. George Allen, London. 1899. 389 pp. Good condition rebound in quarter leather with gilt title on spine and gilt title and ornamentation on upper cover. A little scuffing on green boards. Internally clean with prize-giving sticker inside. Book No: 500197