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The Complete Works - Sense and Sensibility; Pride and Prejudice; Mansfield Park; Emma; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Letters -
Jane Austen
1911-12 - John Grant, Edinburgh - The Winchester Edition
‘I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'
An elegantly bound twelve volume set, comprising all of Austen's works. With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram.
‘Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.’
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Price HK$ 35,000
1911-12 - John Grant, Edinburgh - The Winchester Edition
‘I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.'An elegantly bound twelve volume set, comprising all of Austen's works. With a portrait frontispiece to first volume, and title pages printed in red and black with a vignette 'JA' monogram.
‘Affectation of candour is common enough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone.’
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Price HK$ 35,000
Pride and Prejudice. A Novel -
Jane Austen
1833 - Richard Bentley, London - First illustrated edition & first single volume edition.
A finely bound ‘Pride and Prejudice’, the first Bentley edition, the first edition in one volume, and the first to be illustrated.
Written when Jane Austen was just twenty-one, but revised for publication anonymously thirteen years later. Elizabeth Bennet, eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, the folly of judging by first impressions, the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page engraved by William Greatbatch after drawings by George Pickering.
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Price HK$ 48,000
1833 - Richard Bentley, London - First illustrated edition & first single volume edition.
A finely bound ‘Pride and Prejudice’, the first Bentley edition, the first edition in one volume, and the first to be illustrated.Written when Jane Austen was just twenty-one, but revised for publication anonymously thirteen years later. Elizabeth Bennet, eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, the folly of judging by first impressions, the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial middle-class life.
Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page engraved by William Greatbatch after drawings by George Pickering.
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Price HK$ 48,000
The Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte -
Anne, Charlotte & Emily Brontë
1893 - J.M. Dent and Company, London
An elegantly bound twelve volume set of the Brontë sisters works, each volume with a decorated title page and frontispiece, and two further black and white illustrated plates by Greig and Tilney (three to volume I).
Presented in a matching navy fleece-lined slipcase with ribbon-pull.
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Price HK$ 25,000
1893 - J.M. Dent and Company, London
An elegantly bound twelve volume set of the Brontë sisters works, each volume with a decorated title page and frontispiece, and two further black and white illustrated plates by Greig and Tilney (three to volume I).Presented in a matching navy fleece-lined slipcase with ribbon-pull.
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Price HK$ 25,000