The Novels of Jane Austen

Oxford: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923. The Best Collected Edition of Jane Austen's Works

AUSTEN, Jane. The Novels of Jane Austen. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources. In Five Volumes. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1923-1932. One of 1,000 sets.

Oxford Large-Paper Edition. [Together with:] Jane Austen's Letters to her sister Cassandra and others. Collected and Edited by R.W. Chapman. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1932. One of 1,000 sets.

Together seven octavo volumes. Frontispieces and numerous plates in color and in black and white (five folding plans, three folding maps, one facsimile letter).

Grey linen spines over blue-grey marbled boards, spines with printed paper labels. Minimal rubbing to corners and board edges, still a fine set of one of the most important collected editions of Jane Austen.

Robert William Chapman (1881-1960), usually known in print as R. W. Chapman, was a British scholar, book collector and editor of the works of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen. In 1923 Chapman produced an edition of the five novels of Jane Austen. He edited an annotated transcription of her incomplete manuscript of Sanditon, published in 1925 as Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen. He also edited Letters of Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra and others (1932).

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