The Works.

The Winchester Edition. Limited to 250 copies of which this is number 129. After Richard Bentley, J. M. Dent was the next publisher to take up Jane Austen's novels, and continued publishing them into the 1960s. Dent's ten-volume set of the novels, first published in 1892, is the first to have any critical apparatus. The first set of illustrations were after William Cubitt Cooke; from 1898 Dent used new illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock and his brother Henry Matthew Brock, with more exact representation of period costumes and interiors than Cooke's.

10 volumes, small 8vo. Contemporary brown half morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. With colour illustrations by C. E. and H. M. Brock, tissue guards. Volume 1 has been expertly rebacked using the original spine, slight chipping to a couple of headcaps, some darkening to spines. Internally very clean in still very attractive bindings.