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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.
Mansfield Park.
London: J.M. Dent and Co., n.d. [1908]. [English Literature] English Idylls edition, illustrated. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.vi; 396. With fifteen colour plates by Brock, plus illustrated title page. The plates are fully revised from his earlier engraved edition. Publisher's binding of full pale green cloth profusely gilt-tooled to spine..... More
Pride and Prejudice. With coloured illustrations by C.E. Brock.
London: J.M. Dent, 1907. [English Literature] FIRST DENT EDITION with colour illustrations fully revised by Charles Brock for this edition. Small octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.xiv; 336. With twenty-four colour plate illustrations, including a frontispiece, by Charles Brock. Publisher's original pale green cloth with gilt titles and elaborate gilt tooling..... More
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The Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. The Oxford Illustrated 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, and Minor Works.
London: Oxford University Press, 1988. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE SET, later printings of the third edition thus. Six volumes. Octavo (19 x 13 x 22cm), pp.[4] xvi; 429 [3]; pp.xiv; 415 [1]; pp.xiv; 567 [1]; pp. xiv; 522 [2]; pp.xiv; 252; 311 [1]; pp.x; 474 [2]. With occasional half-tone plates. Publisher's..... More
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[Complete Novels Collection]: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1895-1897. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS, each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and..... More
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[Complete Novels Collection]: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1906-1910. [Classic English Literature] Illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Early printings in PUBLISHER'S LEATHER. Octavo (20 x 14 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh..... More
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[Complete Novels Collection]: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1898-1903. [Classic English Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET, each being a reprint thus, illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice..... More
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[Complete Novels Collection]: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1950-51. [Classic English Literature] Illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Complete in five volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 10cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson to each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice and Hugh Thomson for the all the..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1892. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET, first impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 23cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Elegantly hand-bound in tan half calf..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1892. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET, first impressions thus. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 23cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Elegantly hand-bound in blue quarter morocco..... More
The Novels of Jane Austen, in Ten Volumes: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; and Emma. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1894. [Classic Literature] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND SET. Ten volumes. Octavo (18 x 12 x 23cm). Each volume with an engraved frontispiece portrait, and two or three other illustrations by William Cubit Cooke, and ornaments by F.C. Tilney. Elegantly hand-bound in tan half calf, with raised bands..... More
Emma.
London: The Folio Society, 2007. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS, reset with new illustrations. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 431 [1]. With seven colour illustrations by Puttiapipat, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown quarter buckram, with gilt titles to a blue roundel on the spine, and illustrated paper over boards. Blue endpapers..... More
The Adelphi Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons Limited, no date [circa 1930s]. [English Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (18 x 13 x 20cm), pp.xxiv; 429 [1]; pp.[4] 412; pp.[4] 266 [2]; pp.[4] 536 [2]; pp.[4] 545 [1]; pp.[4] 282 [2]; pp.[6] 147 [3]. Publisher's green quarter morocco, with gilt..... More
The Adelphi Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Lady Susan and The Watsons.
London: Martin Secker, n.d. [1930-31]. [English Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. The complete novels in seven volumes. Adelphi edition. Octavo (18 x 13 x 18cm). Elegantly bound in navy half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red labels and floral gilt decoration to spines, matching blue cloth boards, sewn endbands, beige..... More
Emma. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with an Introduction by Austin Dobson.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1896. [Literature] FIRST THOMSON EDITION, deluxe issue (descibed by the bibliographer as 'cloth elegant' issue). Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] xviii; 437 [1]. With forty in-text pen and ink illustrations by Thomson, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, with lavish gilt decoration and titles to..... More
Austen's Novels: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; A Memoir of Jane Austen by her Nephew J.E. Austen Leigh, Fourth Edition, to which is added Lady Susan and fragments of two other unfinished tales by Miss Austen.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1875-1882. [Classic Literature] LEATHER-BOUND New Edition. Complete in six volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 23cm). With Pickering's engraved frontispiece illustrations to each volume. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin black labels, further gilt decoration to spines, and..... More
Mansfield Park.
London: George Routledge, n.d. [c.1890s]. [Classic Literature] 'Routledge' edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.443; [1], blank; [4], advertisements. With engraved frontispiece illustrated and woodcut head and tailpieces to each chapter. Elegantly hand-bound in half mid-green calf with twin russet morocco title labels, gilt rules to spine, cloth sides, t.e.g., others..... More
Mansfield Park.
Boston, MA: Dana Estes and Company, no date [1906]. [Classic Literature] Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.338; 347. Illustrated with six full colour lithographic plates by C.E. Brock, each with tissue guard. Attractively hand-bound in blue half calf with two burgundy labels lettered in gilt, gilt..... More
Northanger Abbey.
Boston, MA: Dana Estes and Company, no date [1906]. [Classic Literature] Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 338. Illustrated with three full colour lithographic plates by C.E. Brock, each with tissue guard. Attractively hand-bound in green half calf with two burgundy labels lettered in gilt, gilt rules and..... 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] FINE LIMP LEATHER BINDING. In five volumes, octavo (18 x 12cm). Attractively printed and bound by Riviere with five colour plate frontispiece illustrations by Charles Brock. Full royal blue limp morocco tooled in gilt to spines with an elongated triple gilt..... More
Pride and Prejudice.
Boston, MA: Dana Estes and Company, no date [1906]. [Classic Literature] Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.283; 299. Illustrated with six full colour lithographic plates by C.E Brock, each with tissue guard. Attractively hand-bound in blue half calf with two burgundy labels lettered in gilt, gilt..... More
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1846. [Literary Classic] Bentley's 'Standard Novels' edition. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.xvi; 331 [1]. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Pickering. Publisher's dark brown cloth blind-stamped with heavy foliate border to covers, spine richly gilt with floral and armorial tooling, original price 2/6 gilt to spine, yellow-coated..... More
Sense and Sensibility.
Boston, MA: Dana Estes and Company, 1906. [Classic Literature] Illustrated Cabinet Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.xii; 362. Illustrated with six full colour lithographic plates by C.E Brock, each with tissue guard. Attractively hand-bound in blue half morocco with two brown labels lettered in gilt, gilt rules, raised..... More
Sense and Sensibility. A Novel.
London: H.G. Clarke and Co., 1844. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, first thus. Complete in two volumes. Duodecimo (14 x 10cm), pp.[2] 239 [5]; pp.[2] 224 [4]. Contemporary tan half calf, with gilt titles to burgundy labels, gilt tooling to spines, and patterned paste paper over boards. Moderately toned throughout, otherwise..... More
Sense and Sensibility. With Illustrations by Charles E. Brock.
London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1922. [Literature] BROCK-ILLUSTRATED EDITION, finely bound by Hatchards. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xxv [1] 308 [2]. With 16 colour plates including a frontispiece illustrated by Brock. Contemporary navy half morocco, borders gilt-ruled, blue cloth over boards. Gilt titles, tooling, and raised bands..... More
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The Winchester Edition of the Novels [Works] of Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; and Emma.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1905. [English Literature] LEATHER-BOUND WINCHESTER EDITION. Ten volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 45cm). With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram. Recently bound in tan half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to contrasting..... More