By Jane Austen
London   J. M. Dent & Co
7.5" by 5" 216pp; 395pp; 396pp; 206pp.
Four of six volumes of a delightful collection of the novels of Jane Austen.
By Jane Austen

1907-1909 The Series of English Idylls Jane Austen In Four Volumes

London   J. M. Dent & Co
7.5" by 5" 216pp; 395pp; 396pp; 206pp.
Four of six volumes of a delightful collection of the novels of Jane Austen.
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Colour Plates, Decorative Binding, Illustrated, Original Binding

Contains: Emma, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park. With twenty-four coloured illustrations in each book by Charles Edmund Brock (5 February 1870 – 28 February 1938), a widely published English line artist and book illustrator, who signed his work C. E. Brock. Jane Austen (16 December 1775 – 18 July 1817) was an English novelist whose works of romantic fiction, set among the landed gentry, earned her a place as one of the most widely read writers in English literature. Her realism and biting social commentary have gained her historical importance among scholars and critics. From 1811 until 1816, with the release of Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816), she achieved success as a published writer. She wrote two additional novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, both published posthumously in 1818, and began a third, which was eventually titled Sanditon, but died before completing it. Austen's works critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. Her plots, though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. Her work brought her little personal fame and only a few positive reviews during her lifetime, but the publication in 1869 of her nephew's A Memoir of Jane Austen introduced her to a wider public, and by the 1940s she had become widely accepted in academia as a great English writer. The second half of the 20th century saw a proliferation of Austen scholarship and the emergence of a Janeite fan culture.

Condition

In faded blue/green cloth bindings with gilt decoration to the boards and gilt lettering to the spines. The tops of the leaves are also gilt. Externally, worn. Corners are bumped on all volumes ans spines are slightly cocked. Boards are rubbed and stained. Joints are weak on all volumes, particularly on Mansfield Park, Emma and Persuasion. The back strip has also come loose on Mansfield Park. Internally, binding is loosening in places. All hinges are very weak, and some boards are held by cords only. Pages are generally clean and bright, with some age-toning. The end-papers and pastedowns on all volumes are browned and stained. There is a bookseller's stamp on the front pastedown of Northanger Abbey.

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