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FIRST COLLECTED AND FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN, 1833

AUSTEN, Jane. Novels. London, 1833. Five volumes.

Important first collected and first illustrated edition of the novels of Jane Austen, "mother of the English 19th-century novel" (Kunitz & Haycraft), printed from the plates of Bentley's "Standard Novel" editions of 1833, each volume with engraved frontispiece illustration and vignette title page, finely bound. "Very rare in any state" (Gilson). $28,000.

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Sense and Sensibility

"MONEY CAN ONLY GIVE HAPPINESS WHERE THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO GIVE IT"

AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. London, 1833.

Third edition, the first to identify Austen as the author and the first illustrated edition of Jane Austen's extraordinarily rare first novel, on "the twin themes of prudence and benevolence, reason and passion, head and heart, or sense and sensibility," with engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, beautifully bound. $15,000.

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Pride and Prejudice

"IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED, THAT A SINGLE MAN IN POSSESSION OF A GOOD FORTUNE, MUST BE IN WANT OF A WIFE"

AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London, 1833.

Fourth edition of Austen's most popular novel and the author's favorite of all her works, the first to list Austen as the author by name and the first illustrated edition, with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page. $7500.

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Emma

"HER GREATEST NOVEL"

AUSTEN, Jane. Emma. London, 1833.

Second edition of the last novel Austen published in her lifetime, her exquisitely comedic and unerringly insightful social satire—"artistry… as elaborate as any novelist has ever achieved," the first edition to list Austen as the author by name and the first illustrated edition, with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page. Beautifully bound. $6200.

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Novels

JANE AUSTEN’S NOVELS, ILLUSTRATED AND HANDSOMELY BOUND

AUSTEN, Jane. Novels. London, 1910. Six volumes.

Later edition of Austen’s novels, including a memoir of the author by her nephew, J.E. Austen Leigh, and a selection of her letters, with a frontispiece and one additional illustration in each volume (for a total of 12 illustrations), handsomely bound. $5500.

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Novels

THE CLARENDON AUSTEN, HANDSOMELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED

AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels. Oxford, 1926. Five volumes.

Mixed second and third editions of the Clarendon Austen, illustrated with over 40 plates from contemporary sources, and with reproduction title pages from the first editions, handsomely bound. $4800.

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Pride and Prejudice

"IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED, THAT A SINGLE MAN IN POSSESSION OF A GOOD FORTUNE MUST BE IN WANT OF A WIFE"

(THOMSON, Hugh, illustrator) AUSTEN, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. London, 1895.

Early "Peacock" edition of Jane Austen's second and most popular novel, the first illustrated by Hugh Thomson, with 101 charming line drawings, in lovely publisher's elaborately gilt-decorated cloth depicting a peacock spreading its feathers. $4800.

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