Austen (Jane). Works, 6 volumes, Steventon Edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1882, half-titles, engraved frontispieces (those in volumes 1-5 engraved by Greatbatch after Pickering as in Bentley's 'edition of 1833, and portrait in volume 6 as in the Memoir of 1870), bound without advertisement leaves, short closed tear to centre of volume 1 title repaired, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th century red half morocco gilt, 8vo (Qty: 6) Gilson D13; Keynes 31. One of 375 sets printed on John Dickinson & Co. handmade paper (not numbered). Jane Austen's great-nephew Cholmeley Austen-Leigh, son of the writer of the Memoir, was at that time a partner in the firm Spottiswoode & Co. who printed this set for Bentley. The Steventon Edition was the last complete edition of Jane Austen's works to be published by Bentley, it was however the first set issued by that firm in which the novels appear in the order of first publication.
Austen (Jane). Works, 6 volumes, Steventon Edition, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1882, half-titles, engraved frontispieces (those in volumes 1-5 engraved by Greatbatch after Pickering as in Bentley's 'edition of 1833, and portrait in volume 6 as in the Memoir of 1870), bound without advertisement leaves, short closed tear to centre of volume 1 title repaired, top edges gilt, remainder untrimmed, 20th century red half morocco gilt, 8vo (Qty: 6) Gilson D13; Keynes 31. One of 375 sets printed on John Dickinson & Co. handmade paper (not numbered). Jane Austen's great-nephew Cholmeley Austen-Leigh, son of the writer of the Memoir, was at that time a partner in the firm Spottiswoode & Co. who printed this set for Bentley. The Steventon Edition was the last complete edition of Jane Austen's works to be published by Bentley, it was however the first set issued by that firm in which the novels appear in the order of first publication.
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