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AUSTEN, Jane (1775–1817). [Novels…]. London: [Spottiswoode and Co. for] Richard Bentley & Son, 1879–81. 8 works in 6 volumes, 8vo. Half–titles, steel–engraved frontispieces in each volume (5 of which are by Greatbatch after Pickering as in Bentley’s 1833 edition, portrait in Volume VI as in the 1870 edition). Modern half calf, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and fillets in compartments (spines a touch sunned, few spines slightly cocked, some browning and chipping to upper margin in Mansfield Park). An attractive set of early reprints of Bentley’s New Edition that includes Austen’s six novels as well as her unfinished works and a biography by her nephew. Gilson D8–D12.