The first editions are part of a collection going under the hammer in December.
A set of five first-edition Jane Austen novels could sell for more than £100,000 at auction.They are now due to be sold at auction in Gloucestershire by the daughter of the collector.
Chris Albury, auctioneer and senior valuer at Dominic Winter Auctions in Cirencester, said: "The current owner remembers her mother being particularly anxious one time after she had bought one of the books for £2,000 and told her husband to cancel the cheque that night.
"The daughter has had these for many years now and has decided to sell them through auction and let others get the pleasure from them and use the money for new projects and plans."Also being sold is a copy of Pride and Prejudice, which was published in 1813 in an edition of approximately 1,500 copies.
Finally, published a year after Austen's death in 1817, came Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in a run of 1,750 copies."The first four were published in triple decker format, three-volume sets that became standard practice for novels put out by British publishers in the 19th Century - cleverly forcing the new breed of fiction readers to pay for each novel three times," Mr Albury said.
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