THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN: Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey & Persuasion (5 Volumes, Complete) The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from Contemporary Sources.
Published by The Clarendon Press in Oxford 1932-1934
SKU: 56100
£500.00
Third Edition (Pride and Prejudice states 3rd Impression but is Third Edition) 5 Volumes, Complete. 8vo. green cloth hardbacks with gilt titles to spines and gilt decorative device to upper boards, in original price-clipped dust jackets. Each volume illustrated with b/w plates showing contemporary fashions, views and title pages of novels mentioned in the texts. A clean set with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Volume I has thumbnail-sized area missing from top of page xi. Slight browning to endpapers. Slightest fading of cloth to spines. Uniform fading of dark red titles to dust jacket spines. Some wear to dust jacket edges with small chips and closed tears (please see photos). Slight soiling to dust jackets. Overall a VERY GOOD SET in GOOD+ DUST JACKETS.