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Austen, Jane
The world famous Regency novelist. Austen wrote six novels, all of them classics. In each she documents with a wry humour the daily world and preoccupations of the English Landed Gentry. A continuous circus of marriage and property which Austen relates with such wit and realism that the books have stood the test of time better than any of her contemporaries. Austen is very modern and very much approachable. The books were hesitantly received to begin with, Austen seems to have relied on a friend of her brother's who mainly published military books, Egerton to publish her first novel 'Sense and Sensibility in 1811. She published another five. The editions were modest, two thousand copies but sold reasonably well and entered second and subsequent editions during her lifetime. But it was not until the Standard Bentley editions of 1833 that her reputation began its climb into the rarified reaches it inhabits today. Of course all the novels have been filmed several times over as each generation discovers her. The original editions are rare and important and correspondingly expensive. Bibliographically the first editions are quite straight forward. Premiums are restricted mainly to half titles and original drab paper boards as issued.
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1947-1949 The Works of Jane AustenLondon: 1947-1949A wonderful six volume edition of the works of Jane Austen, in calf bindings, and with the original glassine and slip case.
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1901-03 The Novels of Jane AustenLondon: 1901-03A smart set of the major novels of beloved author, Jane Austen, this set with the lively illustrations of Hugh Thomson.
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1963 Volume the SecondOxford: 1963An uncommon copy of this collection of Jane Austen's childhood works, edited by B. C. Southam.
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1923 The WatsonsLondon: 1923A very smart, early impression of Jane Austen's work 'The Watson's', published separately in this work.
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1975 SanditonOxford: 1975A very smart copy of this unfinished novel from Austen, reproduced in facsimile from the original manuscript.
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1930 Pride and Prejudice a Play in Four ActsLondon: 1930A very scarce play adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel, this script using dialogue from the novel and put to a script by Anne Johnson-Jones.
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1933 Volume the First, Now First Printed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian LibraryOxford: 1933An exceptional copy of this first edition thus by Jane Austen, printed from an original manuscript of Austen's juvenilia, held by the Bodleian library.
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1898 2vols Sense and SensibilityLondon: 1898A beautiful Hatchards bound edition of 'Sense and Sensibility', Austen's beloved novel, complete with colour plates.
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1927-30 The Works of Jane AustenLondon: 1927-30The handsome Adelphi edition of Jane Austen's works, uniformly bound in the original cloth.