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There are numerous illustrated editions of
Jane Austen. Make a collection of editions illustrated by each of the
illustrators.
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There are wonderfully bound editions of
Jane Austen by famous Victorian and later binders. Make a collection of Austen's
works bound by Bayntun-Riviere, Sutcliffe, Zaehndorf, Sangorski, Remnant and
Edmonds, H. N. Humphreys, Chivers and others.
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Collect all the editions of a favorite
novel. You may never own the first, but you can make quite a collection of the
rest.
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Sequels - Make a collection of first
editions of the Jane Austen sequels and influenced works.
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Criticism by Major Authors - Make a
collection of the Jane criticism by E.M. Forester, Virginia Woolf and others.
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Early criticism - Make a collection of,
say, the first fifty years of criticism.
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Build Jane's library - Collect
contemporaneous editions of each of the books Jane references in her novels and
letters.
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Biographical material and letters - Collect
all the memoirs, letters and biographies of Jane Austen.
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Criticism of a favorite novel - Collect all
the criticism of relating to a favorite novel.
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Reconstruct Jane's world. Collect
newspapers, magazines and popular novels published during Jane's life that would
likely have been accessible to her.
