Persuasion by Jane Austen - 1902

London : J M Dent & Co, 1902 A very good copy of the 4th edition in this form edited by R Brimley Johnson, with 6 colour plates by C E Brock. In original decorative cloth binding with gilt titles to spine and front board and decorative endpapers; top page edges gilt. With half title, showing that it is volume X of Brimley Johnson's series; colour frontispiece; decorative title page; preface; listing of illustrations; and text with head and tailpieces. Original page marker present. All the plates are present as called for and are tissue guarded. The binding is in very good condition being bright and clean. There is slight pulling to spine ends and a slight bump to the bottom corner tip of the rear board. Contents are very clean and without spotting. There is a sprawly pencil signature to the verso of the fep.