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Jane Austen

Limited to 750 copies worldwide

The Complete Novels (Limited Edition)

US$1,250

Illustrated by Sarah Young

Introduced By Lucy Worsley

Celebrate 250 years of Jane Austen with this exquisite Folio limited edition. Historian and lifelong Austen fan Lucy Worsley provides a brand new introduction to the collection, which also features individual essays for each novel by celebrated writers including Sebastian Faulks and Elena Ferrante. Housed in a cloth-bound presentation box, each of the six novels is bound in a specially woven silk cover and features delightful woodcut illustrations by Sarah Young. A joyful tribute to one of the greatest writers in English literature.

Perfect Additions

The Complete Plays​
William Shakespeare
Frederica
Georgette Heyer
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Book Details
 
Production DetailsFull-bound in jacquard cotton-and-silk cloth and woven by master weavers Stephen Walters
Binding monograms commissioned from Ruth Rowland
Gilded on three edges
Ribbon markers
Presented in a box designed by Emily Benton, covered in blocked cloth designed by the artist
Printed on Munken Pure paper and bound by L.E.G.O. S.p.A., Vicenza, Italy, and bound by Smith Settle, Yeadon, UK
DimensionsEach book: 9 inches × 5¾ inches
FontTypeset in Caslon Pro with Brunel Deck as display
PagesSense and Sensibility 400 pages
Pride and Prejudice 400 pages
Mansfield Park 480 pages
Emma 496 pages
Northanger Abbey 260 pages
Persuasion 268 pages
AuthorJane Austen
Illustrated bySarah Young
IllustrationEach volume is printed in 2 colours with a woodcut frontispiece, 5 linocut illustrations and integrated vignettes
Publication Date09/09/2025
PrintingLimited to 750 copies
Editor's Notes
 
With her sharp wit, timeless social commentary and unforgettable characters, Jane Austen has delighted generations of readers, and this Folio edition of all her major novels is a collection to be handed down from generation to generation. Featuring insightful introductions, cloth-and-silk covers and incredible woodcut and linocut illustrations by Sarah Young, this is a true celebration of 250 years of a master storyteller.
Synopsis
 
Step into the world of Georgian England with this extraordinary Folio limited edition, published to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth. From the lively ballrooms of Pride and Prejudice to the shadowed corridors of Northanger Abbey, Austen’s novels explore love, ambition and self-discovery through characters who continue to captivate readers around the world.

Each of the six novels is presented in its original text, offering readers the closest experience to how Austen’s contemporaries first encountered her work. Introductions by writers including Siri Hustvedt and Val McDermid, alongside a new overarching essay by historian Lucy Worsley, add fresh perspective to these enduring stories. Illustrated throughout by Sarah Young and bound in specially woven silk by historic Suffolk weavers Stephen Walters, this is a landmark edition of Austen’s fiction – deeply authentic, visually stunning and made to last a lifetime.

Production Details

About the Book

Housed in a cloth-bound presentation box designed by graphic designer Emily Benton

Binding monogram for each book commissioned from prize-winning calligrapher Ruth Rowland

Each book is introduced by a different author, with an overarching essay by historian Lucy Worsley

Full-bound in specially woven linen-and-silk cloth by Suffolk-based master weavers Stephen Walters

Each volume has a woodcut frontispiece and 5 linocut illustrations by Sarah Young

Gilded on three edges

Letterpress limitation label, signed by artist and introducer



About the Illustrator

Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, as well as a maker and also originator, with Jon Tutton, of a travelling puppet theatre. Her work is often narrative, drawing on folktale, myth and fairytale, and has been shown in galleries throughout the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall. As an illustrator she has most recently worked on book covers for Stephen Fry's Myth series, Pat Barker's Trojan War novels and the complete works of Shakespeare for OUP. Tutton and Young organise contemporary art and craft events, including Made London and Brighton Art Fair, and run Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery, shop and creative teaching space in Brighton.

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About the Illustrator

Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, as well as a maker and also originator, with Jon Tutton, of a travelling puppet theatre. Her work is often narrative, drawing on folktale, myth and fairytale, and has been shown in galleries throughout the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall. As an illustrator she has most recently worked on book covers for Stephen Fry's Myth series, Pat Barker's Trojan War novels and the complete works of Shakespeare for OUP. Tutton and Young organise contemporary art and craft events, including Made London and Brighton Art Fair, and run Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery, shop and creative teaching space in Brighton.

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About the Illustrator

Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, as well as a maker and also originator, with Jon Tutton, of a travelling puppet theatre. Her work is often narrative, drawing on folktale, myth and fairytale, and has been shown in galleries throughout the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall. As an illustrator she has most recently worked on book covers for Stephen Fry's Myth series, Pat Barker's Trojan War novels and the complete works of Shakespeare for OUP. Tutton and Young organise contemporary art and craft events, including Made London and Brighton Art Fair, and run Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery, shop and creative teaching space in Brighton.

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About the Illustrator

Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, as well as a maker and also originator, with Jon Tutton, of a travelling puppet theatre. Her work is often narrative, drawing on folktale, myth and fairytale, and has been shown in galleries throughout the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall. As an illustrator she has most recently worked on book covers for Stephen Fry's Myth series, Pat Barker's Trojan War novels and the complete works of Shakespeare for OUP. Tutton and Young organise contemporary art and craft events, including Made London and Brighton Art Fair, and run Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery, shop and creative teaching space in Brighton.

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About the Illustrator

Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, as well as a maker and also originator, with Jon Tutton, of a travelling puppet theatre. Her work is often narrative, drawing on folktale, myth and fairytale, and has been shown in galleries throughout the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall. As an illustrator she has most recently worked on book covers for Stephen Fry's Myth series, Pat Barker's Trojan War novels and the complete works of Shakespeare for OUP. Tutton and Young organise contemporary art and craft events, including Made London and Brighton Art Fair, and run Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery, shop and creative teaching space in Brighton.

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About the Illustrator

Sarah Young

Sarah Young is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, as well as a maker and also originator, with Jon Tutton, of a travelling puppet theatre. Her work is often narrative, drawing on folktale, myth and fairytale, and has been shown in galleries throughout the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Cornwall. As an illustrator she has most recently worked on book covers for Stephen Fry's Myth series, Pat Barker's Trojan War novels and the complete works of Shakespeare for OUP. Tutton and Young organise contemporary art and craft events, including Made London and Brighton Art Fair, and run Atelier Beside the Sea, an art gallery, shop and creative teaching space in Brighton.

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Jane Austen was born in Hampshire in 1775, the seventh child and youngest daughter of George Austen, rector of Deane and Steventon, and his wife, Cassandra. She began writing poems, plays and stories for her family from a young age, and her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, was released by Thomas Egerton to sell-out acclaim in 1811. Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1815) followed, and these were the last of Austen’s works to come out in her lifetime. Her novels, including the posthumously published Northanger Abbey (1818) and Persuasion (1818), are today considered amongst the finest in the English language. She died at Winchester in 1817.

Lucy Worsley is an historian, author, curator and television presenter. She read Ancient and Modern History at New College, Oxford, before beginning work at an historic house at Milton Manor, and then becoming an Inspector of Ancient Monuments at English Heritage. Worsley is currently Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, an independent charity which opens to the public the unoccupied royal palaces, including the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace and Kensington Palace. Her books include Cavalier: A Biography of a Seventeenth Century Playboy (2008), Courtier: The Secret History of the Georgian Court (2011) and Jane Austen at Home: A Biography (2017).

Inside the creation of the Jane Austen Limited Edition