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Literature
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
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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
The Works. Comprises: 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., 1896. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITIONS THUS - each being the first edition illustrated by either Brock or Thomson. Five volumes, octavos (20 x 13 x 18cm). With an introduction by Austin Dobson in each volume, profusely illustrated throughout by Charles Brock for Pride and Prejudice..... 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., 1904. [English Literature] HUGH THOMSON ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.xvi; 342; [2], advertisements. With wood engravings, including a frontispiece. Elegantly bound in burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, twin blue morocco title labels lettered in gilt, marbled sides, top edge..... 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
Sense and Sensibility.
London: Avalon Press, 1949. [Classic English Literature] FIRST EDITION to be illustrated by Blair Hughes Stanton. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.302; [2] blank. With eight colour plates. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco with raised bands, gilt decoration to spines, twin 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
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
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
The Novels and Letters of Jane Austen. The Works comprise: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Emma, Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Letters. Edited by R. Bromley Johnson, with an Introduction by Professor William Lyon Phelps. Colour Illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock.
New York: Frank S. Holby, 1906. The Chawton Edition, Limited to 1250 copies of which this is No.26. Complete in 12 volumes. Octavo, generously illustrated with colour plates, all with captioned tissue guards. Title pages printed in red and black. Elegantly bound in brown half morocco with gilt to spines..... More
Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1870. [Poetry] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED, a later edition. Quarto (26 x 19cm), pp.[12]; 268. With frequent wood engraved vignettes by the Patons. Contemporary green full morocco by R. and A. SUTTABY of London, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt..... More
The Wind in the Wood.
London: Hollis and Carter, 1952. [Children's Illustrated] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.[10]; 143; [1]. With twelve chromolithographic plates including a frontispiece by the author, and wood engraved vignettes to chapter headings. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine and upper board, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 18s. net..... More
Birds And Beasts In Africa, and The Angler In South Africa.
London: Macmillan and Co, and Johannesburg: Hortors Ltd, 1938 and 1923. Pair of Baden-Powell association copies, with a letter of authenticity from the scout association: 1) The Angler In South Africa. Inscribed "To The Chief Scout" by H.V. Marsh, the Assistant Commissioner of Natal during Baden-Powell's trip to South Africa..... More
Flyaway.
London: Collins, 1978. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.318. With a map. Publisher's tan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Leeming, not priced. Light shelf-wear. Some minor bruising and a couple of small closed tear to top edge of jacket. Near fine..... More
A Drug in the Market. Author of 'The Slip Coach', 'The Blue Poppy', 'The Down Train' and 'The Black Circle'.
London, Edward Arnold and Co. 1928. First Edition, 8vo. Publisher's light blue/grey cloth, titles in black to spine, in dark blue and white pictorial dust-jacket. Other publications listed to the back. A little bumping and scuffing to spine and corners with a slight lean. Light toning to pages, slightly darker..... More
This Torch of Freedom. Speeches and Addresses.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. [Speeches] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 339; [3] blank. Publisher's blue cloth, lettered in white to spine and upper board, dust-jacket with printed price of 12/6 net. Light spotting to first and last few pages otherwise internally bright and clean. Spotting to edges..... More