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The Novels of... Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield Park. Emma. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources
by AUSTEN, Jane
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- Hardcover
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1926.. Second edition thus. Six works bound in five volumes. 8vo. Publisher's maroon cloth, gilt lettered to the spines and with a central gilt device to the upper boards. 6 frontispieces and 37 plates plus facsimile title pages and pages from other works. Some sunning and mostly light wear to the covers, slight spine slants, else a very good set. The Oxford Illustrated Austen, first published 1923, with Appendices concerning the characters, vocabulary and illustrations.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45729
- Title
- The Novels of... Sense and Sensibility. Pride and Prejudice. Mansfield Park. Emma. Northanger Abbey. Persuasion. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources
- Author
- AUSTEN, Jane
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford: At the Clarendon Press
- Date Published
- 1926.
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- Literature Sets
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
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- Gilt
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