London & Edinburgh, Grant Richards & John Grant, 1898 & 1912.
A delightful set of Austen's complete works, comprising: Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, and her epistolary novel Lady Susan (first published in 1871), together with Austen's abandoned novel The Watsons, and her collected letters. Uniformly bound, the first ten volumes form the complete Winchester Edition of 1898 published in London by Grant Richards, the remaining two volumes containing Austen's lesser known works and letters are from the Edinburgh edition published between 1911 and 1912 by John Grant.
Winchester Edition; 12 vols, 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm); portrait frontispiece to vol. I, woodcut devices to title of Richards' editions; later half tan calf gilt, khaki cloth, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine, top-edge gilt otherwise uncut, internally crisp and clean, a fine set.
Winchester Edition; 12 vols, 8vo (21.5 x 15 cm); portrait frontispiece to vol. I, woodcut devices to title of Richards' editions; later half tan calf gilt, khaki cloth, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces to spine, top-edge gilt otherwise uncut, internally crisp and clean, a fine set.
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