90726-1 Compendiums and Collected Works Green buckram stamped with gilt

Green buckram stamped with gilt floral decorations

Tissue paper for frontispiece illustration intact

Opposite page text gives details about the dress such as who had made it famous and why

Frances Burney was the first hugely popular woman writer in 18th century Britain

90726-1 Compendiums and Collected Works Green buckram stamped with giltEdited by Louise Ross. Introduction to each novel by David Gilson. Set number 21 out of 75. Title page of Volume I of Sense and Sensibility is signed by Gilson and Ross. Facsimile reproduction of the first editions. The set was constructed to mimic as closely as possible the way the first editions would have been produced. As first published, the first four novels are in 3 volumes each. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are together in 4 volumes.