Description
Pre-owned. Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor’s warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love—and its threatened loss—the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. Hardcover, includes a label with the original owner’s name on the inside front cover, and the original owner’s signature on the first page in ink dated 1895. 4th Edition, 218 pages, 3 tissue guarded plates. Illustrations by William C Cooke. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson, ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Pale green cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration with gilt and Author’s facsimile signature to the lower front cover – cover has a stain to the lower right of the front board; some general shelf wear to the cover and slight bumping to the corners. Gilt top edge with deckle edging to the front and lower edges. Hardcover. Published by J.M Dent, London 1895
