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Austen, Jane.
The Works of Jane Austen. [Complete in six volumes: Sense & Sensibility; Pride & Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion and Northanger Abbey].
Publisher: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1965
Stock Code: 11249
Small octavos, pp., [2], v, [1], 322; [2], v, [1], 337; [8], 363; [2], v, [1], 427; [2], v, [1], 219; [2], xv, [1], 211. Each volume has a colour frontispiece and 15 further colour plates by Charles E. Brock. Publisher’s emerald cloth with gilt titles to spines in pictorial dust-jackets. All jackets are price-clipped, except for Northanger Abbey, and have been protected with clear film. Exceptionally clean and neat copies with only minor surface scuffs to jackets of Emma and Persuasion. This handsome set complete in six volumes of Austen’s novels, vividly brought to life by numerous charming illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock (1870– 1938). Brock was a prolific and highly successful illustrator in his day with his best remembered work being these illustrations of Austen’s world. Introduction, by R. Brimley Johnson, and Bibliography to Northanger Abbey volume. A scarce set and an attractive gift for fans of Jane Austen. £225.00