* Brock (Charles Edmund, RI, 1870-1938). Eight original drawings for Mansfield Park by Jane Auste

* Brock (Charles Edmund, RI, 1870-1938). Eight original drawings for Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, pub. Dent, 1908, together eight pen & ink and watercolour drawings, comprising title-page and seven illustrations, each within decorative border, all but title-page signed and dated 1908, each approx. 380 x 265 mm (15 x 10.5 ins), tipped-in to card folders, together with a publisher’s file copy of the book for which they were produced, orig. gilt dec. cloth, in bright condition. The seven illustrations are titled: “The kind pains you took to.. persuade me out of my fears”; “Indulged with his favourite instrument”; “While Fanny cut the roses”; “He walked to the gate and stood there without seeming to know what to do”; “A ranting young man who appeared likely to knock him down backwards”; “‘Good, gentle Fanny!’”; and “The joyful consent which met Edmund’s application”. (9)