Lot 284 , Austen, Jane - Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, comprising: Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; i.e. 4 vols (ex 5 -without Pride and Prejudice); publisher's introductions

° Austen, Jane - Macmillan's Illustrated Standard Novels, comprising: Sense and Sensibility; Emma; Mansfield Park; Northanger Abbey and Persuasion; i.e. 4 vols (ex 5 -without Pride and Prejudice); publisher's introductions by Austin Dobson, & fully illustrated by Hugh Thomson, 3 vols. in the publisher's red 'cloth elegant' issue - gilt overall decoration on upper covers and spines, ge. and orange pictorial ('peacock') e/ps.; Northanger a brick red blind stamped cloth (same design), ge. and white e/ps., all uniform cr. 8vo., 1897-1900

£150-250

Condition:
S and S. (1896, repr. 1897); Emma (1st ed. 1897); Mansfield (1st ed., 1897); Northanger (1897, repr. 1900). frontispieces and 156 other illus. (almost all f-page), i.e. 40 per vol. S and S. rubbed spine head / tail, corners v.sl. bumped, marked foxing upper and rh. title margins, upper and lh. of frontis.(and its tissue guard), e/ps. sl. marked, text and illus. clean; Emma - rubbed spine head and tail, foxing blank verso last text page and opposite blank free e/p., e/ps. sl. marked; Mansfield - v. sl. rubbed spine head and tail, some foxing upper/lower margins of frontis (and its tissue guard), e/ps. sl. marked; Northanger -rubbed spine head and tail, foxing title upper and rh. margins and upper margin frontis. (just touches top of illus.) and on the guard, e/ps. heavily foxed and few spots on half title; this vol. with publisher's 4pp list at end, there are no advt. pp. in the other vols. S and S./Emma with neat contemp. inscriptn. on half titles; Mansfield on flyleaf preceding

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