Jane Austen, a collection of 25 hardback titles by or relati...

Hammer

£110

Jane Austen, a collection of 25 hardback titles by or relating to her and 12 softcover books/booklets, including 'Sir Charles Grandison or the Happy Man - A comedy in Five Acts by Jane Austen. The Original Manuscript in Facsimile', Burford, David Astor at Jubilee Books, 1981, limited edition, one of 250 copies only, unnumbered/out of series, 53pp original green cloth gilt, housed with another volume being a forward to the play by David Cecil in marbled paper wraps, 8pp (2 of 3 volumes only, lacks volume being typescript of the play in marbled paper wraps), original marbled paper covered solander box, printed paper label; 'Love and Freindship', Chatto & Windus, 1922, 1st edition, orig. quarter cloth, decorative paper covered boards gilt, with another copy of the same work, 1923, 4th impression, 'Lady Susan', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1925, 'Memoir of Jane Austen', Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1926, 5 plates as called for, uniform original quarter cloth, printed paper labels to spines; Mitton: 'Jane Austen and Her Times', 1906, 2nd edition, orig. cloth gilt, etc etc