Lot 273
Austen, Jane
The Novels
Auction: Books & Manuscripts | 01 October 2026 from 10am | Lots 253 to 285
Description
London: Grant Richards, 1898. Winchester Edition, 10 volumes, 8vo, original cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spines, spines sunned and heads and tails slightly bumped, top edges gilt, bookplates to pastedowns, some dust-staining to pastedowns and free endpapers;
Brontë Sisters. The Novels. Edinburgh: John Grant, 1911. Thornton Edition, 12 volumes, 8vo, original cloth with gilt decoration, gilt titles to spines, top edges gilt, all with bookplates to pastedowns, pencil ownership inscription to Wuthering Heights free endpaper, all plates as called for;
Eliot, George. The Works. Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1878-9. Cabinet Edition, 19 volumes, 8vo, contemporary half morocco, gilt-decorated and titled spines with raised gilt-lined bands, top edges gilt, bookplates to pastedowns, the set possibly lacking a further volume (Theophrastus Such?);
Gibbon, Edward. History of the Roman Empire. London: John Murray, 1887. 8 volumes, 8vo, contemporary tree calf gilt, gilt tiles and gilt-lined raised bands to spines, edges of boards gilt-tooled, top edges gilt, closed tear to The Eastern Part of the Roman Empire fold-out map (volume I), maps and plates as called for;
Lockhart, J. G. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837. 7 volumes, 8vo, 20th century red half crushed morocco, raised bands with gilt and gilt title to spines, top edges gilt, spines slightly sunned, some occasional light foxing, bookplates to front pastedowns, some pencil annotations to free endpapers and paste-downs, volume I with portrait illustration opposite title page and Scott's handwriting facsimile;
together with 2 further works (60)