The Works of Jane Austen. [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife": Finely bound set of the Works of Jane Austen; One of 250 Sets

The Works of Jane Austen. [Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma].

AUSTEN, Jane.

Item Number: 131177

Boston: Roberts Brothers, Publishers, 1892.

Limited edition, one of 250 sets of the works of Jane Austen. Octavo, 12 volumes bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, illustrated. Edited by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. In fine condition. An exceptional set, uncommon in this condition.

"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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