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Early Editions and Later Illustrations of the Porter Sisters' Books

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French edition of Jane's Duke Christian of Luneburg (1824), touting that it shares a translator with that used for the fiction of Sir Walter Scott.
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Title page and vignette of the 1831 Standard Novel edition of Jane's Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803).
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Title page and vignette of the 1832 Standard Novel edition of Maria's Hungarian Brothers (1807).
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Frontispiece of the 1831 Standard Novel edition of Jane's Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803).
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The flap copy for Ward & Locke's edition of The Scottish Chiefs calls her version of the story "vivid" and says the story will never lose its appeal while "men hold liberty even dearer than life."
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Frontispiece of the 1832 Standard Novel edition of Maria's Hungarian Brothers (1807).
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Even very cheap late nineteenth-century editions of Jane's novels often included a frontispiece illustration, either of a battle scene or a landscape, as here, with Edinburgh Castle.
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