AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817). The Novels and Letters. R. Brimley Johnson, editor. New York and Philadelphia: Frank S. Holby, 1906.

12 volumes, 8vo (214 x 138 mm). Half-titles, color-printed frontispieces and numerous illustrations by C.E. and H.M. Brock, lettered tissue guards, title-pages printed in red and black. (Slight mostly marginal toning.) Late 20th-century half green morocco gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut.

LIMITED EDITION, number 322 of 1250 copies of the "Stoneleigh Edition." With an introduction by William Lyon Phelps, who was the Lampson Professor of English Literature at Yale University at the time of publication. Stoneleigh Abbey, for which this limited edition was named, was the home of Austen's maternal relatives, the noble Leigh family, and an 1806 visit to Stoneleigh Abbey inspired her descriptions of several scenes in her novels, such as the chapel in Mansfield Park. With an unsigned 6-page typed document dated 11 November 1910 laid in discussing the importance of studying Austen's work.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio