
[The Novels of Jane Austen.]
( Joan HASSALL, illus. ) AUSTEN, Jane
Illustrated by Joan Hassall. Introductions by Richard Church. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Shorter Works. [Second and Best Folio Society edition.]
NEAR FINE SET IN PUBLISHER'S SLIP-CASE
Published: Folio Society, 1975 [1993]
Stock code: 47573
Price: £186.00
7 vols., 8vo., with wood-engraved frontispieces, numerous engraved illustrations in the text and pictorial endpapers; original patterned paper boards, dark cloth backs lettered and tooled in gilt, ivory endpapers, a near fine set in publisher's board slip-case.
The text is based on Chapman's definitive edition; the patterned paper boards were designed by Hassall. First published by Folio Society between 1957-1963, with the Second Edition reset in 1975. In this reissue several novels contain additional wood-engravings. Gilson, E281(P&P; 1957); E286(S&S; 1958); E300(MP; 1959); E307(NA; 1960); E328 (P; 1961); E340(E; 1962); F17 (SW; 1963).