Lot 145

Austen, Jane
The Novels


Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
[series-title at head of each title-page]. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900. 12 volumes, 8vo (16.5 x 10cm), contemporary red half calf, gilt spines with twin maroon morocco labels, floral cloth sides, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, frontispiece to each volume, blue silk page-markers, spines slightly faded, Pride and Prejudice volume 1 with 2 leaves (pp. 35-8) loose
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan, Dowager Countess of Airlie (1933-2024), with her bookplate to the front free endpaper of each volume of Pride and Prejudice.
Footnote
This edition contains Lady Susan and Austen's unfinished novel The Watsons together in one volume, and a volume of Austen's letters.

