I recommend you get a set of Marples from Amazon to start with. 40 bucks or so.
250 bucks for a beginner set of chisels doesn't pass the common sense test when you've a bunch of tools to acquire to make a shop. Moreover, A2 steel is harder to sharpen and you'll be better served by carbon steel to begin with until your sharpening skills improve.
The only real difference 'tween excellent and mediocre chisels is finish and edge holding ability.
It'll take you slightly longer to flatten the backs of the Marples and you'll have to sharpen them slightly more often.
And that's great news...because by the time you wear these out, you'll be real good at it and will no longer need jigs or 600-dollar fancy grinders or expensive indexing plates and diamond paste to do it well.
I'm not fooling....by all means buy a middlin grade and use them up. I used a handmedown, garden-variety set of Footprints for a long, long time...like 40 years...before I switched to something better.
Once you have a baseline set of chisels, you can gradually replace them with rehabbed cast steel beauties off of Ebay for pennies...2-10 dollars each. I still prefer the old cast steel Witherby, Gillespie, Buck, Chas Buck, Greenlee, PS&W, Swan and many others to modern A2 ans M2 steel....easy to sharpen is important for me in a bench chisel or gouge, where the stones sit out on the bench for quick touchups.
Rehabbing Old Chisels:
http://www.cianperez.com/Wood/WoodDo...on_Chisels.htm
More Chisels:
http://media5.hypernet.com/cgi-bin/U...=1&t=010117&p=
Seek advice on new purchases, but ignore all this, "my prestige thingy is better than your prestige thingy"...
...and just continue to work wood.
Tis the wood you leave, eh? Not the wood you remove or how you remove it.