May 2020 Catalogue

G r e a t G i f t s 4 “The Mother Of The English 19th-Century Novel” 1. AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen. London and New York, 1897-99. Five volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter tan calf gilt. $4800. Click for More Info Turn-of-the-century set of Austen novels illustrated with splendid line drawings by Charles Brock and Hugh Thomson, beautifully bound. Austen “is the mother of the English 19th-century novel as Scott is the father of it” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 23). Contains Sense and Sensibility , Pride and Prejudice , Northanger Abbey , Persuasion (bound with Northanger Abbey ), Mansfield Park and Emma . Each volume with frontispiece and numerous illustrations, most full-page, by Hugh Thomson and Charles E. Brock, and introduction by poet and literary historian Austin Dobson. A beautiful set. “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” —Sense and Sensibility