Search results for: 'AUSTEN, Jane'
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(AUSTEN, Jane.) 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, enlarged issue. The Winchester edition, considered the most attractive of the unillustrated editions of Austen's works produced around this time, was first published by Grant Richards in 1898 in ten volumes. This enlarged issue has two additional volumes, comprising Lady Susan and The Watsons, taken from the 1871 Memoir, and... Learn More£2,950.00Stock Code: 123405
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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£3,750.00Stock Code: 51578
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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.] Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion.London : 1818
First edition of Jane Austen's final published work, with an excellent provenance showing early readership of Austen on the continent. This publication pairs her last completed novel with the light-spirited satire that was probably the first full-length novel she wrote. Her brother Henry's biographical notice, dated 13 December 1817, is the first acknowledgement... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 126016
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(THOMSON, Hugh.) AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility.London : 1896
First edition of Thomson's illustrated Sense and Sensibility. 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£1,750.00Stock Code: 130378
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Complete Novels.London : 1928
First one-volume edition, first impression, attractively bound. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 141607
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.London : 1882
The Steventon edition. A particularly attractive set of Austen's novels, handsomely bound. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 141269
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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. Pride and Prejudice.London : 1817
Third edition, and the first to be issued in two volumes. Pride and Prejudice was Austen's second published novel. Austen began it in August 1796, when she was the same age as her heroine, and finished in August 1797. Entitled "First Impressions", it was offered by her father to Thomas Cadell on 1 November 1797 as a novel in three volumes "about... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 127121
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.1946
Third edition, third impression. A handsomely bound set of Austen. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 141563
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AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.London : 1894
First illustrated edition, large paper issue, one of 250 copies released in England; a further 25 copies were released in the US. Thomson's "light touch and feeling for period manners provide a charming and accessible gloss to the author's work" (ODNB). This was the first edition to feature illustrations accompanying the text; Bentley's 1833 edition... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 137031
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AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park.London : 1833
First Bentley edition. This copy with a Christmas gift inscription from the poet Robert Calverley Trevelyan to the daughter of the British politician Clifford Allen, "Polly Allen, from Bob Trevelyan, Christmas 1939". Trevelyan and Allen were part of the same social and political circles of pacifists and both were close friends with Bertrand Russell;... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120828
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AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels.London : 1892-5
An attractive set of the Dent editions of Austen's novels, with Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice in first Dent editions, the others early editions; the illustrations here by William Cubitt Cooke (1866-1951) are first attempt at period-appropriate representation, with Regency dress and furnishings. After Richard Bentley,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 136081
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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. Emma.1991
A handsome leather bound volume of this classic novel which was first published in 1816. Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 133419
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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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(BROCK, C. E.) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.London : 1895
First Brock edition. The costume and interior decor depicted in these illustrations is reputedly accurate to the Regency period, for Charles Brock and his brother Henry used to collect antique furniture and clothing so that their friends and relations could model for the artists in their Cambridge studio. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117921
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(THOMSON, Hugh.) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice.London : 1894
First fully illustrated edition. This was the first edition to feature illustrations accompanying the text, as Bentley's 1833 edition and subsequent printings had featured only a frontispiece. Thomson's "light touch and feeling for period manners provide a charming and accessible gloss to the author's work" (ODNB). Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 141099
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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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(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 title page. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 128629
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(GOLLANCZ OMNIBUS.) The Travellers' Omnibus.London : 1933
Reissue, first published the previous year as the Christmas Omnibus. Intended as light reading for travellers, the collection includes a selection of the writings of Jonathan Swift, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Alexander Pope and others. This copy is from the publisher's archive, with their neat annotation to rear cover and their stamp to half-title... Learn More£40.00Stock Code: 128615
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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, OCLC 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, OCLC 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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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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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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EDGEWORTH, Maria. Tales of Fashionable Life.London : 1809-12
First edition of both series of tales, which feature stories in which a woman's life is the predominant theme. Maria Edgeworth was the leading Irish intellectual woman and the most commercially successful novelist of her age, vying with Jane Austen in terms of contemporary critical esteem. From the noted library of Frances Currer, which T. F. Dibdin... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 70455
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(BROCK, H. M.) 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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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
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(MONTOLIEU, Isabelle de.) 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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GISBORNE, Thomas. An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex.London : 1799
Fourth edition of this conduct manual first published in 1797. In 1805, Jane Austen wrote to her sister that 'I am glad you recommended "Gisborne", for having begun, I am pleased with it, and I had quite determined not to read it'. Certainly An Enquiry would chime quite closely with Austen's own ideas, although perhaps not that novels are addictive,... Learn More£170.00Stock Code: 141160
