The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion.
AUSTEN, Jane.
The Novels of Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion.
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": The Hampshire edition of The Novels of Jane Austen; Beautifully Illustrated with Tissue-Guarded Color Plates in Each Volume
New York: George E. Croscup & Co., 1904.
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The Hampshire edition of the novels of Jane Austen containing each of her major works. Duodecimo, ten volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, blind-stamping to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, top edge gilt, illustrated with tissue-guarded color plates by C.E. and H.M. Brock including frontispiece to each volume. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. One of five hundred numbered copies signed by the publisher in Vol. I, this is number 220. In near fine condition. A lovely illustrated set.
"Generations of readers have marveled at the modernity of her work. She is the mother of the English 19th-century novel as Scott is the father of it" (Kunitz & Haycraft, 23).
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