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Austen, Jane; Squire, J. C. (ed.).
The Complete Novels of Jane Austen.
Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd., London;
Date of Publication: 1928
Stock Code: 15657
Octavo, pp., xiv, [4], 1421, [1]. Publisher’s brown leather, sympathetically re-cased; spine on three raised bands; titled in gilt to leather spine label; ornamented in gilt to compartments; triple fillets in gilt and in blind to boards; gilt rolls to edges; top edge dyed brown; marbled end-papers. Rubbing to extremities; spine dry and lightly cracking. Internally clean and bright. A very serviceable copy. One of the earliest editions to republish all six novels in one volume. The introduction, often damning with faint praise, tries to imagine Austen in the 1920s. £150.00