Search results for: 'AUSTEN, Jane'
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AUSTEN, Jane (contrib.?); AUSTEN, James. The Loiterer.
Oxford : 1789-90
First edition, possibly Jane Austen's first appearance in print. This scarce periodical was written by James and Henry Austen while they were at Oxford. Some scholars have suggested that in issue number 9, the letter signed "Sophia Sentiment" was the work of their sister Jane when she was 14. Although Gilson does not include this work in his Bibliography,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 102817
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
Edinburgh : 1911-12
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two additional volumes, comprising Lady Susan and The Watsons, taken from the 1871 Memoir, together with Jane Austen's letters. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 95363
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
Edinburgh : 1911-12
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two additional volumes, comprising Lady Susan and The Watsons, taken from the 1871 Memoir, together with Jane Austen's letters. Rare in contemporary binding and in this condition. Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 121771
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
Edinburgh : 1911-12
The Winchester edition; considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. In this enlarged issue, the set has two additional volumes, comprising Lady Susan and The Watsons, taken from the 1871 Memoir, together with Jane Austen's letters. Rare in contemporary binding and in this condition. Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 135931
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
Edinburgh : 1906
The Winchester edition, the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Jane Austen's works produced around this time. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 143945
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AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility.
London : 1813
Second edition. An attractive copy, uncommon in a contemporary binding. Sense and Sensibility was first published in late 1811, and the first edition was sold out by July 1813. This second edition, with the text significantly revised by Austen and the substitution of "By the author of Pride and Prejudice" for "By a Lady" on the title page, appeared... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 88406
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AUSTEN, Jane. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion.
London : 1818
First edition of Austen's final published work, pairing Northanger Abbey, probably the first full-length novel she wrote, with Persuasion, her last completed novel. Her brother Henry's biographical notice, dated 13 December 1817, is the first acknowledgement in print of Jane Austen as the author of her six novels. Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 130059
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THOMSON, Hugh (illus.);. AUSTEN, Jane The Works.
London : 1925-26
A handsomely bound set of the Illustrated Pocket Classics. Hugh Thomson was one of the most notable book illustrators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his illustrations for Jane Austen's novels remain widely regarded as classics in the field. Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 142090
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Complete Novels.
London : 1928
First one-volume edition, first impression, attractively bound. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 142087
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
London : 1948
An attractively bound set of the Chawton edition. With two contemporary Christmas gift tags loosely inserted. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 96703
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
London & New York : 1898
The Winchester edition. Limited to 250 numbered copies printed for America. Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 95364
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
London : 1892
First Dent editions, first printings, with two Chapters numbered 32 in Mansfield Park. The text is based on the last edited edition published in the authors lifetime. The illustrations here by William Cubitt Cooke (1866-1951) are first attempt at period-appropriate representation, with Regency dress and furnishings. After Richard Bentley, whose last... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 143546
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
Oxford : 1923
First Clarendon press edition. One of a limited edition of 1,000 sets on large paper with the letters in 2 volumes. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 80199
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AUSTEN, Jane. [The novels:] Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey; Persuasion.
London : 1947-1950
First Zodiac Press editions, first impressions, except Pride and Prejudice, which is a third impression; an attractively bound and printed set of Austen's novels. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 143035
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AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. [Together with:] Emma.
London : 1851 & 1853
First Simms and McIntyre editions, two out of three Austen titles published in their Parlour Library series, "the first successful series of fiction reprints" (British Library collection, online).
Founded in 1847, "the sensational importance - in its courage, efficiency of handling, and success - of the Parlour Library as an innovation in cheap... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 145502
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.
Boston : 1900
A handsomely bound set. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 86986
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AUSTEN, Jane; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) Persuasion.
London : 1909
First revised Brock-illustrated edition, deluxe issue in the richly gilt vellum binding, the second overall, with new plates re-drawn from the first Brock-illustrated edition of 1898. Demonstrating his mastery in using ink and watercolour, Brock provided colour illustrations for all six Austen novels published by Dent between 1907 and 1909.
Charles... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 142228
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AUSTEN, Jane; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) "Is not this nice?"
1907
The original signed illustration for the "Pride and Prejudice" published in 1907 as part of the "Series of English Idylls" by J. M. Dent & Co. The illustrations Brock created are a full and original revision of his previous illustrations for the "Pride and Prejudice" published by Macmillan in 1895. The costume and interior decor depicted in these illustrations... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 75970
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AUSTEN, Jane; BROCK, C. E. (illus.) She had even vouchsafed to suggest some shelves in the closets upstairs.
1907
The original signed illustration for the "Pride and Prejudice" published in 1907 as part of the "Series of English Idylls" by J. M. Dent & Co. The illustrations Brock created are a full and original revision of his previous illustrations for the "Pride and Prejudice" published by Macmillan in 1895. The costume and interior decor depicted in these illustrations... Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 75952
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GOLLANCZ OMNIBUS. The Christmas Omnibus.
London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Intended as light reading over Christmas, the collection includes a selection of the writings of Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pope and others. From the publisher's archive, with their stamp to front pastedown and front panel. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 128630
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AMIS, Kingsley. What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions.
London : 1970
First edition, first impression, of this collection of essays by Kingsley Amis including "literary criticism, of writers as diverse and Hans Christian Andersen and Dylan Thomas and novels from Sorrell and Son to Portnoy's Complaint; articles on such topics as horror films, the use of language, the National Eisteddfod of Wales and fictional detectives;... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 85374
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GRIFFITHS, Anselm John. Observations on some Points of Seamanship;
Cheltenham : 1824
First edition. Uncommon, Library Hub lists BL, National Museums Scotland, Cardiff and NLW for this edition, WorldCat adds nine further copies including NMM, NYPL, and the US Navy Department Library. A wide-ranging guide on matters naval intended to "assist the rising officer in forming correct conclusions" (preface), it was first published at the expense... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139310
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GRIFFITHS, Anselm John. Observations on some Points of Seamanship;
Cheltenham : 1824
First Edition. Uncommon, Library Hub lists BL, National Museums Scotland, Cardiff and NLW for this edition, WorldCat adds nine further copies including NMM, NYPL, and the US Navy Department Library. A wide-ranging guide on matters naval intended to "assist the rising officer in forming correct conclusions" (preface), it was first published at the expense... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 89797
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BROCK, H. M. (illus.); JERROLD, Douglas. The Essays.
London : 1903
First edition of this collection of essays edited by Jerrold's grandson, featuring Brock's delicate illustrations. The brothers C. E. and H. M. Brock collaborated closely with the publisher for J. M. Dent, perhaps most notably illustrating the novels of Jane Austen. They "worked closely together in the same studio and gained stimulation from each other... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 105771
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FELICITE, Stéphanie, comtesse de Genlis. Tales of the Castle.
London : 1806
Eighth Edition, in a handsome period binding with the gift inscription on the front free endpaper of volume 1: "Cecilia Charlotte Leeson, The Gift of Her fond mamma on her birthday the 3rd of March 1808". Cecelia Charlotte Leeson (1801-1818) was the daughter of the Irish peer Joseph Leeson, 2nd Earl of Milltown (1730-1801), and stepdaughter to Valentine... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 138487
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REPTON, Humphry. Fragments on the theory and practice of Landscape Gardening.
London : 1816
First edition of Repton's last treatise on landscape gardening, written together with his son. Fragments is illustrated in the familiar Repton manner, with overslips used to show the changed landscape before and after Repton's improvements. He was by now famous, mentioned for example in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park (1814) as the generic name of all... Learn More£22,500.00Stock Code: 114884
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MONTOLIEU, Isabelle de (trans.); WYSS, Johann David. Le Robinson Suisse, ou Journal d'un Père de Famille Naufragé avec ses Enfans;
Paris : 1824
Fourth edition of Isabelle de Montolieu's adapted French translation of the Swiss Family Robinson, together with the first edition of her continuation of the story, undertaken with the author's permission. It is uncommon to find the translation and the continuation in a uniform contemporary binding. Isabelle de Montolieu (1751-1832) was a prolific Swiss... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 130194
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RICHARDSON, Samuel. The Works...
London : 1811
First collected edition of the author whom Jane Austen "knew... by heart" (ODNB); Anna Laetitia Barbauld called him "the father of the modern novel of the serious or pathetic kind". The editor was Dublin-born Edward Mangin (1772-1852), of Huguenot origins, a contemporary of Southey at Oxford, ordained into the Irish church; he published several volumes... Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 26106