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. This item is unavailable.
Published by Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926
- Hardcover
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Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United KingdomAdrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB
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Item description from seller
[Complete Novels] FINELY BOUND SET, the second edition thus. Six volumes bound as five. Octavo (22 x 15 x 23cm), pp.[6] xvi; 429 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 415 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 567 [3]; pp.[2] xiv; 522 [4]; pp.[2] xiv; 252; 311 [3]. With occasional half-tone plates. Recent maroon half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin black labels, and further gilt tooling to spines. Matching cloth over boards; all edges untrimmed. Nice clean copies with a little toning to edges and margins. Some paper repairs to final four leaves of 'Mansfield Park'. Presented in an attractive new leather binding. A fine edition compiled by the noted Austen scholar Robert William Chapman (1881-1960), containing all of Austen's famous novels, as well as extensive appendixes and addenda, including 'Miss Austen's English', 'Modes of Address', 'Carriages and Travel', 'The Topography of Bath', a biographical note on the author, and 'The Mysteries of Udolpho'.
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- Title
- 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
- Author
- AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817), [CHAPMAN, Robert William, editor]
- Publisher
- Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926
- Binding
- Hardcover
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