AUSTEN, Jane;

£2,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Emma. First Hammond edition. Christine "Chris" Hammond was one of the most productive illustrators of the 1890s, interpreting works by Thackeray, Gaskell, and Eliot. She was "an ideal illustrator for Jane Austen" (Cooke) and also illustrated Sense and Sensibility. Hammond drew Austen's characters with an eye to "small nuances of facial expression and gesture", foregrounding the text's drama to "a spontaneous, and sometime even a febrile effect" (Cooke).

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