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Jane AUSTEN. Mansfield Park: a novel. (Standard Novels, No XXVII). London: Richard Bentley, 1837.
Price: US$449.14 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher's brown cloth. Spine slightly faded and very slightly worn at head and tail, covers very slightly marked, edge of upper cover slightly bumped, rear hinge broken and rear free endpaper a little torn, some mild spotting of engraved title-page and frontispiece. The author's third novel, after Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice (first edition 1814, "printed for T. Egerton"), in a reprint of Bentley's Standard Novels edition of 1833, with three title-pages: series title-page (dated 1837), engraved title-page (dated 1833), individual title-page (dated 1833); 4pp. of publisher's advertisements at end. "The Standard Novels issues, and the collected edition [issued by Bentley also in 1833], were frequently reprinted," comments Austen's bibliographer David Gilson. However, "So few of these reprints survive in libraries, and even fewer in original condition" that the details he is able to provide "must be incomplete". This copy conforms to Gilson's copy of this printing he describes at p.226, D7.
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$705.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original decorated cloth, spine bumped sunned and a trifle chipped, frontispiece and vignette titlepage spotted, advertisement leaves, a nice copy. 424 pages; keywords: fiction - women authors;
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Jane Austen. Mansfield Park. Bentley, UK, 1837.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2nd imp 1837. The second printing of this first one volume edition and the first illustrated edition with a frontispiece illustration and a smaller vignette on the engraved title. Richard Bentley first published this work as part of his Standard Novels series in 1833, and this copy is rare in that it contains the Standard Novels title page as well as the vignette title page for the book. Fifth edition overall. Recently bound in three quarter leather and hand marbled boards. Book is fine and very bright. Contents are average with light marking and foxing to some pages. Title page and engraving very darkened and foxed. More images can be taken upon request. Ref12245 ####14532
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park: A Novel. Richard Bentley, London, 1837.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: [2], 424 pp.Frontispiece & added engraved title with vignette illustration, both engraved by Greatbatch after Pickering. Bound in period calf rebacked with later calf, spine tooled in gilt, morocco lettering piece. Very Good with some scratching and rubbing to covers, corners showing; light stain to lower margins of frontispiece and added title, affecting imprints, with some foxing to those leaves as well. Two bookplates on paste down, and inscription on front flyleaf dated 1847. The British author's third novel. An early re-issue of the 1833 edition, which was the first one-volume edition and first illustrated edition, with the frontispiece and added title dated 1833.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.