The Works of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma).
"If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more": Limited large paper edition of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN; Finely Bound by Asprey
The Works of Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, and Emma).
AUSTEN, Jane.
Item Number: 100940
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1892.
Limited large paper edition, one 100 examples for England (of 150 total). Octavo, 10 volumes. Bound in half calf and marbled boards by Asprey, spines with 5 raised bands, ruled and titled in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Although a luxury edition, the 1892 Dent edition was the first to contain any critical commentary, giving Austen’s texts serious consideration. Gilson E75. A beautifully bound large paper set of Austen’s novels.
"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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