Lot 270
Austen, Jane
The Novels
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 253 to 285
Description
Edited by R. Brimley Johnson, with Illustrations by William C. Cooke and Ornaments by F. C. Tilney. London: J. M. Dent and Company, 1893. First Dent edition, third impression, 10 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, top edges gilt, the others uncut, housed in the publisher's original green cloth case, plates with facing tissue guards, each volume with bookplate, browning to front and rear free endpapers, ‘Sense and Sensibility’ volume 1 p. 17 plate loose, occasional spots, a few wormholes to lower margins, edges of case worn with cockling to front panel and smudges and marks to the others [Gilson E76]
Provenance
Property of a Lady of Title, East Lothian.
Footnote
The publisher's cloth case appears to be an especially rare survival, with no other examples traced.