This 19 volume boxed set consists of the first edition texts of Jane Austen's classic masterpieces. The first editions are documents in the history of English literature - other subsequent editions of the novels were corrected, some by Jane Austen herself, and many spellings and much punctuation changed. Alos included is the first edition text of The Memoir by Austen's nephew includes engravings which were suppressed in subsequent printings. Lord Brabourne's editions of the first collected selection of Jane Austen's letters to her sister Cassandra and others included here, also contain...

There have been many studies, critical books, and learned articles produced over the years about Jane Austen which increased in the latter part of the 20th century. Her novels, juvenilia and surviving letters have been intensively researched. Added to this, there is a growing interest in her life, times, the importance of a sense of place to her writing and in her familial and social relationships. Included in this set of source books are: James Edward Austen-Leigh's Recollections of the Early Days of the Vine Hunt (1865) which describes some of the people who belonged to the Austen circle in...