Austen, Jane. A 1937-38 set of five works for Macmillan's Illustrated Pocket Classics edition. Being Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility & Mansfield Park. Macmillan & Co. Limited. Illustrations by Hugh Thomson, bar Pride & Prejudice illustrated by C. E. Brock. Publisher's red cloth, gilt lettering to spines & upper edges gilt, all presented in the uncommon unclipped dust wrappers which are in excellent condition, with very minor sunning to the spines, some rubbing & odd scratch to spines, extremities lightly bumped, some light loss & chipping to the head of the spines of Emma & Mansfield Park, orig. price to ffep in pencil & one vol with a pencil ownership inscription, but otherwise in smart original conditon. A lovely complete set of Austen's works, mostly with Thomson's iconic illustrations, an early set to be seen complete in dust wrappers. Small 8vo. (5vol)
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