Pride and Prejudice
Boston: The Limited Editions Club at the Merrymount Press, 1940. Sewell, Helen. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 1173 of 1500, signed on the limitation page by the illustrator Helen Sewell. Wear to corners of slipcase, paper label darkened with age. Slight wear to embossed boards, most notable at head of spine. Please see photos. Top edge gilt. Unopened pages. xvi, 411, [3]pp. 6.5 x 9.75". Best known as an illustrator of children's books, Helen Sewell provides wonderfully comic illustrations. As Frank Swinnerton notes in his preface, "whatever our secret opinions may be of Fitzwilliam Darcy we do not hide from ourselves, I think, the fact that we have fallen in love with Elizabeth Bennet. This means, in effect, that we have fallen in love with Jane Austen; and once we do that we are her lovers for life." Very Good. Item #2026-S161
Price: $700.00