Sense & sensibility
By: Jane Austen ; with ten collages by Augusta Talbot
Contributors: Talbot, Augusta, 1948- illustrator, autographer; Hoyem, Andrew, book designer, publisher; Schaefer, Susan, 1957- printer; Arion Press; Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc; Spicers Paper
Publisher: The Arion Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Sisters; Fiction; Young women; Gentry; Inheritance and succession; Mate selection; Man-woman relationships; Social life and customs; Manners and customs
Work titles: Sense and sensibility
Description: "To illustrate the novel ... [Augusta Talbot's] pieces combine familiar representational depictions of Austen's characters with new imagery from sources both expected and unexpected. Fragments of the black and white Hugh Thomson line drawings from the 1896 Sense and Sensibility provide recognizable faces and torsos for Marianne, Elinor, Willoughby, Edward, Lucy Steele, and other characters, while their postures and placement express a modern insight into how pressures, often of a financial nature, distort their behavior. The world around the characters--clothes, furniture, rooms, gardens, and landscapes--is composed from cut-out color images from botany, painting, and landscape architecture."--
Notes: "The text ... is taken from the second edition, 1813, which is in the public domain"--Title page verso.

"Sense & Sensibility is the one-hundred-eleventh book of the Arion Press. It was designed and produced under the direction of Andrew Hoyem with the assistance of Blake Riley, Jeffrey Raymond, Brian Ferrett, Chris Godek, Paul Kantlehner, Rochelle Youk, Nathalie Roland, Megan Gibes, Diana Ketcham, Chris Dunlap, Chris Dupin, Bruce Burns, and Catherine Fox. The text type is Bell in Monotype composition, with larger sizes handset, and Union Pearl and Bulmer handset for display. The type was printed by letterpress on Mohawk Letterpress Text paper. The collages were printed by offset lithography in color on dull-coated Pacesetter Silk, under the supervision of Susan Schaefer, and were tipped onto the pages by hand. The edition is limited to 300 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution, all signed by the artist."--Colophon.

Rare Book copy: No. 30.

Signed by Augusta Talbot after colophon.

"The binding is Smyth-sewn with a full cloth cover and a leather label stamped with genuine gold. The book is presented in a slipcase."--Publisher's website.