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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.
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Northanger Abbey.
London: Avalon Press, 1949. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITION to be illustrated by Robert Austin, with an appreciation by V.S. Pritchett. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.246 [2]. blank. With eight colour plates. Elegantly bound in blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, twin burgundy morocco title labels..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: Eldon Press Limited, 1939. [Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.xviii; 588; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, striking metallic gold dust-jacket with printed price of 2'6 net. Some spotting to preliminaries, neat ownership to flyleaf, bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown. Cloth discoloured to foot of..... More
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[The Novels of Jane Austen, comprising] Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; and Emma]. The Series of English Idylls.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., 1907-1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND FIRSTS THUS, the complete first Brock Colour editions. Six volumes. Octavo (20 x 13 x 19cm). Each volume with 24 colour illustrations by Brock, including a frontispiece and vignette title page. Recent biscuit-brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
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[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
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[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
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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, 1933. [Complete Novels] LEATHER-BOUND SET, the third edition thus. Six volumes bound as five. Octavo (21 x 15 x 21cm), pp.xiv; 429; pp.xiii; 415; pp.xii; 567; pp.xi; 521; pp.xiii; 252; pp.311. With occasional half-tone plates. In recent green half calf with raised bands, gilt titles..... 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
Mansfield Park.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1897. [English Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xviii; 429; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with gilt titles, floral design in blind to covers, white endpapers, edges untrimmed. Contents quite clean..... More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Classic Literature] FIRST THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342. With forty wood engravings, including a frontispiece, by Hugh Thomson. Contemporary brown half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and marbled paper over boards. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed;..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
London: Avalon Press, 1949. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITION to be illustrated by B. Gordon Smith. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.319; [1] blank. With eight colour plates. Elegantly bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, blue and red morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled..... 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
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen. With An Introduction by J. C. Squire. [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, etc.]
London: William Heinemann, 1928. [Literature] FIRST SINGLE VOLUME EDITION. Demy octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.xiv; 1421. Title page printed in black and red. Finely bound by Riviere and Son in full straight-grained blue morocco with red and green labels to spine, full gilt back, all edges gilt, swirled marbled endpapers..... 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
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
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
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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
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1886. [Literary Classic] 'New' Edition, Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[iv]; 332; [2], advertisements. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Pickering. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration to spine, blind-stamped border to covers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Contents generally clean with a couple of vintage..... More
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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 and The Watsons.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1906. [English Literature] Ten volumes, Octavo (20 x 14 x34cm), with portrait frontispiece to first volume, title pages printed in red and black, vignette 'JA' monogram illustration. Beautifully bound by Bayntun-Riviere circa 1950s in full royal blue crushed morocco, gilt, with gilt-panelled spine, gilt rule to sides..... 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
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