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Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion ( Complete 5 Volume Set )
by Austen, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- Seller
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Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Complete set of Jane Austen's brilliant 6 Novels bound in 5 volumes. From "Macmillan's Standard Illustrated Novels". In original publishers Red cloth covers with beautiful bright Gilt ornate decoration on fronts. The gilt decoration on spines is mostly faded. All page edges Gilt. Endpapers illustrated with a lovely deep yellow Peacock design. B&W Illustrations. Frontis illustrations all protected by tissue guards. Pride and Prejudice illustrated by Charles E. Brock and the other 4 volumes illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
First published betwen 1895 and 1897, Northanger Abbey is dated 1897 and the other 4 are 1898 reprints.
Spine colour faded. Some nicks and a littyle fraying at spine ends. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1899, on ffeps. and penciled bookseller note on back of ffep in Sense and Sensibility. No other inscriptions. Interesting newspaper cuttings from 1917 & 1918 on fly leaves of 2 volumes.
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- Bookseller
- White Swan Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100005
- Title
- Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion ( Complete 5 Volume Set )
- Author
- Austen, Jane
- Illustrator
- Charles E. Brock and Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co,. Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1898
- Size
- 7 1/2" Tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Works of Jane Austen
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics; Historical Fiction;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
White Swan Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
White Swan Books
Biblio member since 2024
Redruth, Cornwall
About White Swan Books
Old fashioned Book loving Book Dealer selling from Bricks and Mortar Bookshop in Cornwall and also now selling Books online. Specialising in Antiquarian, Vintage Children's, Out of Print and Collectable books but also selling a wide range of Second Hand books in many subjects.
Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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