Triple gilt lined upper and lower boards with a gilt, black, brown and red stamped image of a peacock and butterflies to the upper board." It's only $8,303.Īnother amazing peacock cover is this one, from 1895, illustrated by Hugh Thomson for Macmillan's edition of Illustrated Standard Novels. Abe Books has a first peacock edition, which they say dates to 1894: "A stunning Sangorski and Sutcliffe full dark green leather binding with 5 raised bands and six compartments to the spine. Pride, peacock, get it? ( There's an iPhone case, too, for any modernists). Peacocks have been featured on many a cover, some of them gilded, some of them not. Here's another, circa 1883, which is going for nearly $1000 and apparently includes the inscription "To My Husband from his wifre 1885." I like this one, a "circa 1900" edition being sold by Abe Books for nearly $500, because of what look like floating balloons made of olives on the cover. In a letter to her sister Cassandra on 29 January 1813, Austen writes of receiving her copy of the newly publishing novel (her "own darling child"), and while acknowledging its few errors, she expresses her feelings toward its heroine as such: "I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, & how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know."Įarly on, designs were fairly simple, Victorian-era for the Regency book. It was published in late January 1813 in a small edition of approximately 1500 copies and sold for 18 shillings in boards. After an early rejection by the publisher Cadell who had not even read it, Austen's novel was finally bought by Egerton in 1812 for £110. It looked like this.Ī few notable details about the work, which was estimated at between $30,000 and $50,000 and sold for $68,500, from the Christie's lot description: " Originally titled First Impressions, Pride and Prejudice was written between October 1796 and August 1797 when Jane Austen was not yet twenty-one, the same age, in fact, as her fictional heroine Elizabeth Bennet. ![]() This is a title page from the first edition.Ī first edition of the novel was auctioned by Christie's in December, 2012. Pride and Prejudice was first published in 1813 by Thomas Egerton. First impressions are important! Jane Austen memory lane, let's take a walk down you. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet star-crossed romance? Here's a selection of covers from years past up through the present the good, the bad, the jaw-droppingly gorgeous, and a few that pale in comparison to the book's contents. ![]() After all, Austen's work has been in the public domain for nearly a century. Monday marks the 200th anniversary of Pride and Prejudice - fun fact: the book's original title was the questionably Skinemax-sounding First Impressions - and the publishing world is awash in versions of the Jane Austen classic with which you might celebrate the monumental event. This article is from the archive of our partner.
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