The Novels of Jane Austen in Ten Volumes. Edited by Richard Brimley Johnson. With Illustrations by William C. Cooke. London: J.M. Dent, 1892. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s smooth pale green buckram, title lettered in gilt to spines with title within gilt medallion to upper covers. A nice bright set.

First J.M. Dent edition of Jane Austen’s collected works. Its popularity ensured that several editions followed.

William Cubitt Cooke (1866–1951) was the illustrator of this groundbreaking 10-volume edition, first published in 1892.​

The Dent edition features thirty illustrations, the largest number produced by one Austen artist to that date. Cooke designed three plates per volume, because the four longer Austen novels were split into two volumes each.