THE NOVELS OF I. COMPTON-BURNETT. [Set of Nineteen Volumes] Slipcase I.: Pastors and Masters (1925); Brothers and Sisters (1929); Men and Wives (1931); More Women Than Men (1933); A House and Its Head (1935). Slipcase II.: Daughters and Sons (1937); A Family And A Fortune (1939); Parents and Children (1941); Elders and Betters (1944). Slipcase III.: Manservant and Maidservant (1947); Two Worlds and their Ways (1949); Darkness and Day (1951); The Present and the Past (1953). Slipcase IV.: Mother and Son (1955); A Father and His Fate (1957); A Heritage and its History (19590; The Mighty and Their Fall (1961); A God and His Gifts (1963); The Last and the First (1971).
London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1972. Limited edition of 500 sets, of which this is no.58, each volume hand-numbered to title verso, complete in nineteen volumes, 8vo., red cloth, gilt, ribbon bookmarks, top edges magenta; a fine set, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are uniformly lightly sunned to spines, but complete and otherwise near-fine, with just slight chipping to Volumes 17 and 18 at head of spines. The set is housed in four slipcases, all of which show sunning to edges and upper panel, but are otherwise very good. ‘This limited and numbered edition of 500 copies has been produced posthumously in accordance with Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett’s wishes. It wgas her express desire that her first novel, Dolores, should be excluded from this edition.’