ATKINS J.W.H.

English Literary Criticism: 17th and 18th Centuries.

Methuen,, [1951]. 8vo., First Edition, some light spotting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth, gilt back, a very good, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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Book number: 5426

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Keywords: english literature, literary criticism, literary studies, j.w.h. atkins, literature, english, literary, criticism, 17th, 18th, centuries

AUBREY John

Three Prose Works. Miscellanies; Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme; Observations. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by John Buchanan-Brown. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Centaur Press, Fontwell,, [1972]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. SCARCE.

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AUSTEN Jane

Jane Austen's Letters to her Sister Cassandra and Others. Edited by R. W. Chapman. [Second Edition].

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, 1952. 8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, 19 plates and 9 illustrations, maps and plans in the text, small neat contemporary inscription on front free endpaper; original brown buckram, gilt back, two corners lightly bruised else a very good, clean copy in unclipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper, the latter chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail of backstrip. Collected by her finest biographer and editor, this outstanding collection of Austen's letters to her beloved sister was first published in two volumes in 1932. In this edition 'a few necessary corrections have been made in the text, a lately-discovered letter has been added, and a more interesting illustration [of Steventon Rectory] subsitiuted for one less interesting'. Increasingly difficult to find in this condition. Gilson G6.

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AUSTEN-LEIGH] [Richard Arthur

Jane Austen and Lyme Regis. [Second Impression]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND IMPRESSION

Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co.,, 1944. Sm. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; original blue-grey wrappers, upper wrapper with portrait mounted in oval cartouche, backstrip lettered in black, yapped edges, covers lightly age-faded at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy. Conceived by Emma Austen-Leigh as a companion to her 'Jane Austen and Bath' and 'Jane Austen and Steventon', this work remained unstarted at her death. It was carried through 'to the best of my ability' by her brother Richard and published in 1941. A third impression appeared in 1946. VERY SCARCE INDEED. Gilson M681.

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AUSTEN Jane

Jane Austen. Critical Assessments. Edited by Ian Littlewood. FINE SET

Helm Information, [Robertsbridge],, ]1998]. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces; blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips lettered in gilt, blue edges, blue endpapers, a fine set. The set comprises: Vol. I: Biographical Background; Publishing History; Critical History; Nineteenth-Century Response; Writers on Jane Austen; Vol. II: Social Background; Intellectual Background; Twentieth-Century Response; Vol. III: Juvenilia; Lady Susan, The Watsons; Letters; Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Vol. IV: Mansfield Park; Emma; Persuasion; Sanditon. The publisher's slip-case is not present with this set.

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AUSTEN Jane

Jane Austen's Letters to her Sister Cassandra and Others. Collected and edited by R.W. Chapman. Second Edition. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [1964]. 8vo., Best Edition, with a frontispiece, 19 plates, and 9 full-page illustrations, maps and plans in the text; original buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. Collected by her finest biographer, this outstanding collection of Austen's letters to her beloved sister was first published in two volumes in 1932 with a second, revised, edition (including four extra letters) in a single volume in 1952. This was subsequently re-issued with several additions and amendments in 1959 and again (as here) in 1964. Increasingly difficult to find in this condition. See Gilson G6.

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AUSTEN Jane

Jane Austen's Letters to her Sister Cassandra and Others. Edited by R. W. Chapman. [Second Edition]. NEAR FINE COPY IN DUSTWRAPPER

Oxford University Press, Oxford,, [1969]. 8vo., Best Edition, with frontispiece, 19 plates and 9 full-page illustrations, maps and plans in the text; original maroon buckram, gilt back, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper. Collected by her finest biographer and editor, this outstanding collection of Austen's letters to her beloved sister was first published in two volumes in 1932. In this edition 'a few necessary corrections have been made in the text, a lately-discovered letter has been added, and a more interesting illustration [of Steventon Rectory] subsitiuted for one less interesting'. Increasingly difficult to find in this condition. Gilson G6.

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AUSTEN Jane

Lady Susan. Written about 1805. First published in 1871. Now reprinted from the Manuscript. [Edited by R W Chapman]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, 1925. 8vo., First Edition thus; grey boards, ivory cloth back, paper label (worn), uncut, a very good, clean, crisp copy. With spare label tipped-in at end. Gilson F5; Keynes, 176.

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AUSTEN Jane

My Dear Cassandra. Selected and introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett.

Collins & Brown,, [1990]. Oblong 4to., First Edition, with illustrations throughout, small mark on title; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.

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AUSTEN Jane

Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. [Bentley's Standard Novels reissue.] BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNRESTORED PUBLISHER'S BINDING

Richard Bentley,, 1856. 8vo., with engraved frontispiece (original tissue guard present), engraved and printed titles, frontispiece and titles minimally age-soiled; original green pebble-grain cloth, sides elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, primrose endpapers, uncut, corners just a fraction turned, tiny nick at tail of backstrip, joints tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy in wholly unrestored publisher's binding. Published as Volume 4 in Bentley's Standard Novels edition (series first issued in 1833; Gilson D4) but complete in itself. Complete with half-title to first work and separate printed title to second work. The frontispiece, by Greatbatch after Pickering, is still dated 1833 as is usual with SN reissues. Gilson notes that later issues 'generally dispense with the engraved title' (which is however present here) and that 'the volume numbers and the indication that this is a collected set appear only on the spines of the original cloth binding'. The present binding differs from Gilson's purple (he records green only for the original issues of 1833), but see his comment on D7 as a whole 'so few of these reprints survive in libraries, and even fewer in original condition, that the following details must be incomplete'. A BRIGHT, CLEAN CRISP COPY OF A VERY SCARCE WORK. Gilson D7 1856.

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AUSTEN Jane

The Novels of Jane Austen. Volume III. Mansfield Park. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations from contemporary Sources. [Third Edition thus].

Oxford University Press,, [1948]. 8vo., Third Edition thus [Fourth Impression], with 2 plates as frontispiece, 7 plates and 3 full-page type-facsimiles, small neat signature on front free endpaper; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Initially published in 1923 as Vol. III of Chapman's five-volume edition of The Novels. The 'illustrations from contemporary sources' are a new feature, augmented here by type-facsimiles of the first volume of the edition of 1814, and all three volumes of the second edition of 1816. Each of Chapman's five volumes is complete in itself, with introductory note and considerable bibliographical and literary apparatus. Importantly the present text was not set up specifically for the 1923 edition but reprinted from the Oxford edition of 1912 (see Gilson E133). Gilson E150 (recording the five-volume collection).

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AUSTEN Jane

[The Novels of Jane Austen.]. [With] A Memoir by her Nephew J.E. Austen-Leigh [with] Lady Susan and Fragments of two other unfinished Tales. New Edition. [Complete set of the Steventon Edition.]. THE STEVENTON AUSTEN IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING

Richard Bentley,, 1881[-1885]. 6 vols., 8vo., with 5 engraved frontispieces, engraved portrait of the author and full-page facsimile, frontispieces and titles mildly browned; most attractively bound in contemporary niger half calf, marbled boards ruled in gilt, back with five raised bands ruled in gilt, second and third compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, an unusually well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp set. A bright set, comprising Vol. I: Sense and Sensibility (1882); Vol. II: Emma (1882); Vol. III: Mansfield Park (1883); Vol. IV: Northanger Abbey [and] Persuasion (1885); Vol. V: Pride and Prejudice (1881); Vol. VI: Memoir, Lady Susan, Fragments (fifth edition, 1883). The five frontispieces are by Greatbatch after Pickering from the original Standard Novels issues of 1833; the portrait and facsimile are from the 1870 'Memoir'. HANDSOME SET OF THE LAST STEVENTON EDITION, AND THE LAST EDITION OF AUSTEN PRINTED BY BENTLEY BEFORE ACQUISITION BY SMITH ELDER IN 1898. THE 1882 ISSUE WAS LIMITED TO 375 COPIES OF EACH VOLUME SOLD ONLY AS SETS; the present set contains three such volumes (all with half-titles as issued); the remaining three volumes are reissues. Gilson, D13 et seq.

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Book number: 36486

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AUSTEN Jane

[The Novels of Jane Austen]. Pride & Prejudice [with] Emma [with] Mansfield Park [with] Northanger Abbey [with] Sense & Sensibility [with] Persuasion. NEAR FINE SET OF THE NOVELS IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Guild Publishing,, [1986]. 6 vols., 8vo., blue cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in illustrated dustwrapper. Each novel is complete and unabridged.

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Book number: 45792

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AUSTEN Jane

The Novels of Jane Austen. Emma. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations from contemporary Sources. Volume IV. Third Edition [Third Impression; this volume only]. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Clarendon Press, Oxford,, [1946]. 8vo., Third Edition, Third Impression, with frontispiece, 9 plates and several pages of facsimiles in the text; original series binding of green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy. Chapman's masterly edition of the novels was first published in a limited edition of five volumes in 1923. It was the first based on carefully collated texts and the first to feature illustrations from contemporary sources. Demand far outstripped the limited audience and a 'second edition' (in reality a second printing on cheaper stock) was issued in 1926. A 'third edition' (as here) was published in 1933, but since it is produced from the original plates it is still technically a third printing. This third edition, several times re-issued, preserves the three-volume structure of the first edition of 1816, adding frontispieces to each volume together with the other plates and facsimiles, and Chapman's extensive notes and explanatory articles. See Gilson, E150.

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Book number: 9273

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AUSTEN Jane

The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes, Indexes and Illustrations from contemporary Sources. Third Edition. NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS

Oxford University Press,, [1988]. 6 vols., 8vo., with frontispieces; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. An elegant set. The set comprises Vol. I: Sense and Sensibility; Vol. II: Pride and Prejudice; Vol. III: Mansfield Park; Vol. IV: Emma; Vol. V: Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Vol. VI: Minor Works. Chapman's third edition of the novels (five volumes) was first published in 1933; the sixrh volume was added in 1954. Chapman 18 (recording the first edition); Keynes 40, 41 (recording the first and second editions); Gilson E150, F15.

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