AUSTEN, Jane.

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Sense and Sensibility. First revised Charles Brock edition, in the publisher's deluxe vellum binding. The artist first produced illustrations for Dent's Austen novels in 1898, in collaboration with his brother Henry. A decade later, Dent commissioned Charles alone to produce fresh illustrations for their new editions as part of their "Series of English Idylls". The Brock brothers prided themselves on the historical accuracy of their illustrations. They collected antique furniture and clothing and used friends and relations to model them in their Cambridge studio. Charles Brock was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 1908.Austen's classic novel was originally published in 1811.

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