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Jane Austen | First Editions
1775 - 1817
Jane Austen (16 December 1775 - 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, in the main set amongst the English upper classes have earned her a place as arguably the most widely read writers in English literature. Without too much exagerration she can probably be described as one the first "realistic" novelist in English. Her stories contain a wealth of detail regarding the daily lives of her contemporaries, a departure from the melodramatic and rather purple fashion of previous popular novels. Her writing style is intensely rich and vivid, crowded with a wealth of the kind of vivid social detail that makes reading her work such an immersive experience.See below our stock of Jane Austen fine bindings, and sets.
Pride and Prejudice.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd., no date [circa 1935]. [Literature] ILLUSTRATED. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp. [4]; 345; [2]; [16 of publisher's advertisements]; [1]. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with illustration by S.C. Hindley, patterned green and white endpapers. Illustrated with eight black and white... More
![[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN, Charles BROCK, illustrators, Hugh, and THOMSON, Austin DOBSON, introduction.](/pictures/thumb/52845.jpg?v=1546870245)
[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1906. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt... More
![[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN, Charles BROCK, illustrators, Hugh, and THOMSON, Austin DOBSON, introduction.](/pictures/thumb/52846.jpg?v=1545326607)
[The Illustrated Novels of Jane Austen]. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1910. [Illustrated Novels Set] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, later impressions. Six novels in five volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm). Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Brock; the other titles by Thomson. 40 wood engravings per volume. In recent navy half morocco with raised bands, gilt... More
The Works of Jane Austen. Being: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897. [English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). Handsomely bound in recent burgundy half morocco over red cloth boards, gilt titles and tooling to spines, contrasting blue title... More
Pride and Prejudice.
New York: The Century Co., 1905. [English Literature] BROCK ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.329. With full-page illustrations by Brock. Elegantly bound in recent half green oasis morocco over sage green buckram sides, gilt titles and rules to spine, top edge gilt. A clean, fine copy, inside and out... More
The Novels of Jane Austen. Including: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Emma. The text based on Collation of the Early Editions by W.R. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes, and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. [Literature]. Second Oxford Edition, being the FIRST REGULAR EDITION, preceded by the large paper version in 1923. Complete in 5 volumes. Octavo (21 x 14cm). Publisher's burgundy cloth blocked in gilt to spine and upper, edges untrimmed. This set features unusual VARIANT bindings- four... More
![The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN, Robert Willliam CHAPMAN.](/pictures/thumb/52843.jpg?v=1544797151)
The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion.
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926. [Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND SET, the second edition thus. In five volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 21cm), pp.xiv; 429; pp.xiii; 415; pp.xii; 567; pp.xi; 521; pp.xiii; 311. In recent tan half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting red and green labels... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [Illustrated Classic] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1]. With 40 wood engraved illustrations by Thomson, including a frontispiece. In the publisher's deluxe red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper board. All edges gilt; yellow peacock design... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped floral design to spine and covers, 'Peacock' patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor edgewear, some fading/rubbing... More
Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 444. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped floral design to spine and covers, 'Peacock' patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor edgewear, some fading/rubbing to backstrip... More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342. With forty wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped floral design to spine and covers, 'Peacock' patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Minor edgewear, some fading and... More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: J.M. Dent and Sons, 1933. [Classic Literature]. FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2]; xxii; 322. With eight chromolithographic illustrations by Vox, including frontispiece. Publisher's blue half morocco over blue cloth boards, gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Internally fine. Leather rubbed to corners... More
The Vox Edition of the Works of Jane Austen
London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1933-4. [Classic Literature] FIRST VOX ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13 x 21cm), 7 volumes. With colour plates and in-text black and white illustrations by Maximilien Vox. Prefatory letter, in French by Maximilien Vox and an introduction by Emile Legouis. Publisher's patterned grey cloth... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: George Allen, 1894. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxviii; 476 [4]. With one hundred wood engravings and a frontispiece by Thomson. Elegantly bound in light blue half calf over navy cloth boards, raised bands, gilt titles to spine, red and green labels; all edges gilt... More
Jane Austen's Works. Comprising: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Lady Susan and Memoir; Letters.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900-1901. [Literature] THE WORKS. Twelve volumes, small octavo (19 x 12 x 30cm). Publisher's green cloth, blocked in gilt to spine and upper board, plain endpapers, top edges gilt. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece. The set housed in a custom felt lined cloth... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1892. [English literature] Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2]; 413; [1]. Handsomely bound in recent full burgandy morocco, gilt titles to spine, extra gilt. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Some bubbling to a few of the leaves, mostly to the rear and not affecting... More
Mansfield Park.
London: Printed For T. Egerton, Military Library, Whitehall. 1814. [English Literature] FIRST EDITION, three volumes. 12mo (19 x 12cm). Bound without half-titles. Period-style half grey calf, gilt, over marbled sides, drab endpapers, all edges speckled, housed in a cloth slip-case. Very light and occasional marking within, contents generally clean with... More
The Novels of Jane Austen. The works include: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey with Persuasion, and Lady Susan with A Memoir of J. Austen and The Watsons.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1882. [Literature] FINELY BOUND. In six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), with tissue-guarded frontispiece engraving by Pickering to each volume. Finely bound circa 1920s by Roger de Coverley in half mid-blue crushed morocco, gilt, over marbled sides with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Internally clean... More
The Novels of Jane Austen. With general introduction by R. Brimley Johnson. Illustrated in colour by A. Wallis Mills.
London: Chatto and Windus, c. 1900. [English Literature]. 10 volumes, octavo (19 x 13cm). With tissue-guarded colour plate illustrations throughout, title pages printed in two colours. Elegantly bound for Sotheran's (likely by Morrell) in half tan calf, gilt, over buckram sides, twin morocco labels to spines, marbled endpapers, illustrated endpapers... More
![[The Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN.](/pictures/thumb/50137.jpg?v=1514979840)
[The Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride and Prejudice; Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1929-1934. DELUXE BINDING, mixed printings. Six volumes. Small octavo (16 x 10 x 15cm). Publisher's deluxe brown full morocco with gilt titles to green labels, and further gilt decoration to spines. Each volume presented in its original matching cloth-covered slipcase. Marbled endpapers. Very small ownership inscription... More
![Novels [Being: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, A Memoir, Lady Susan, and The Watsons.]. Jane AUSTEN.](/pictures/thumb/50168.jpg?v=1514900466)
Novels [Being: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, A Memoir, Lady Susan, and The Watsons.]
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1875-1883. New Edition. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 20cm), Pickering's engraved frontispiece illustrations to each volume. Publisher's green cloth, blind embossed floral panel design to boards, titles and publisher's imprint in gilt to spine, coated brown endpapers. Housed in an elegant fleece-lined slipcase... More
![The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. Comprising: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Jane AUSTEN.](/pictures/thumb/50214.jpg?v=1515583588)
The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. Comprising: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion.
London: George Routledge, n.d. [c.1880]. [English Literature]. Five volumes. Small octavo (18 x 12 x 8cm), complete. Half navy blue calf with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, twin red and black title labels, combed marbled sides, edges and endpapers. One or two minor spots or folds else Internally... More
The Novels, comprising Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion and Emma. With Introductions by R. Brimley Johnson.
London: Robert Riviere and Son, n.d. [c.1920]. [English Literature]. In five volumes, octavo (18 x 12cm). Attractively printed and bound by Riviere with five tissue-guarded colour plate illustrations by Charles Brock. Half bright red calf over buckram sides, tooled in gilt to spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Edges of... More
![The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Lady Susan, The Watsons, as well as the Letters. Jane AUSTEN.](/pictures/thumb/52885.jpg?v=1545059630)
The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The works include: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Lady Susan, The Watsons, as well as the Letters.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. [English Literature] Complete in twelve volumes including the Letters. Octavo, with portrait frontispiece to first volume, title pages printed in red and black, vignette 'JA' monogram illustration. Beautifully bound in red half calf with gilt titles and centre tool to spines, green morocco title labels, red... More
Volume The Third. Now First Printed from the Manuscript.
Oxford, Clarendon Press 1951. With preface and notes; pp.133. FIRST EDITION. 12mo. Bound in the publisher's line-backed blue/grey boards with title label to backstrip, edges untrimmed. A little dustiness and toning else a fine, unopened copy in the original glassine (slightly nicked). The third and final volume of Jane Austen's... More