[Minor Works Collection]. Love and Friendship; The Memoir of Jane Austen; Volume the First; Volume the Third; Lady Susan; Sanditon; The Watsons

1) London: Chatto and Windus; 2-7) Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1922-1951. [Literary Juvenilia and Fragments] MINOR WORKS COLLECTION. Seven volumes. Octavo (19 x 14 x 13cm). All in publisher's cream quarter cloth with light blue paper-covered boards, except 'Love and Friendship', which is in quarter red cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt-decorated red paper-covered boards, and pictorial endpapers. All volumes except 'Love and Friendship' with plain paper title labels to spines. Untrimmed edges. First blank to Love and Friendship removed, otherwise a nice clean copy. Memoir is internally clean, with the spare label at rear, and some splashes and marks to boards; toning and spotting to spine. Volume the First internally clean, with quite heavy toning to spine. Volume the Third only shows moderate spotting to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf of Lady Susan, with a splash mark to lower board and heavy toning to spine. Sanditon is a particularly clean copy, with minimal toning to spine only. The Watsons is internally clean with heavy toning to spine. Very good overall. A comprehensive collection of Austen's fragments and juvenilia, including the 1926 Clarendon Press edition of the 'Memoir of Jane Austen' by her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, reprinted from the 1871 edition without 'Lady Susan' or 'The Watsons', and including the postscript of the first edition as well as an introduction by the Austen scholar Robert William Chapman. Also containing Chapman's editions of the three unpublished novels, 'Lady Susan', 'Sanditon' and 'The Watsons', as well as volumes 'First' and 'Third' of Austen's childhood notebooks published between 1933 and 1951. The first volume in the collection, 'Love and Friendship' (1922) is the very first publication of 'Volume the Second' (republished with alterations in 1963) from the juvenile notebooks, containing the title story as well as 'Lesley Castle', 'The History of England', 'Letters' and 'Scraps', with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton. Altogether a fine near-complete collection of Austen's minor works, lacking only Gilson's F7, F8, F9, F13, and F18. Gilson's F3; F5; F6; F10; F12; F14; M130.