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Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Richard Bentley, London, 1833.
Price: US$3976.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy of the first Bentley edition in contemporary half leather binding which has been rebacked preserving the original spine. It was issued as part of the Standard Novels series enabling a much wider range of readers to access Jane Austen's works. The binding is sound and clean with new marbled paper sides. The spine has 5 small raised bands and gilt compartments with title label. Most of the original spine is present - as the previous damage was mainly to the spine ends and joints. Page edges lightly marbled.The original endpapers have been preserved with professional repair at the joints. There is an old ownership signature to the top of the initial blank. Contents: frontispiece; vignette title and letterpress title; text pp 1-340. It is bound without the half title. The contents are in very good clean condition with some occasional light foxing. Page size 16.5 cm x 10 cm.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$8000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Set of first Bentley illustrated editions issued in 1833, uniformally rebound in fine half leather binding: 1. "Pride and Prejudice" - Richard Bentley, 1833 first illustrated edition, issued in standard editions and first one volume edition, bound with standard editions half title page, frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, regular title page, some page foxing, name inscription, some wear to edges. 2. "Sense and Sensibility" - Richard Bentley, 1833 first illustrated edition, issued in standard editions and first one volume edition, bound with standard editions half title page, frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, regular title page, some page foxing, name inscription, some wear to edges. 3 "Mansfield Park" - Richard Bentley, 1833 first illustrated edition, issued in standard editions and first one volume edition, bound with standard editions half title page, frontispiece, engraved vignette title page, regular title page, some page foxing, name inscription, some wear to edges.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$19241.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Five volumes complete comprising - Sense and Sensibility, First Thus, 1833, 6pp, [2] ads, [7], vi-xv, [1], 2-331pp, [1] (Gilson D1); Pride and Prejudice, First Thus, 1833, [4], 340pp (Gilson D5) ; Mansfield Park, Second Thus, 1837, [4], 424pp, [4]p ads (Gilson D7); Emma, First Thus, 1833, [4], 435pp, [1] (Gilson D2); Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, First Thus, 1833, 24p ads, [2], 440pp (Gilson D4). Original cloth, with original black labels to spines. Spines faded, one or two of the labels chipped with small amounts of loss, but with no loss of sense. Spine ends chipped, corners bumped, rubbed to extremities. Internally some light foxing, mainly to margins, but generally fairly clean. Sense and Sensibility with small holes to bottom margin of a few pages, not affecting text; Pride and Prejudice with small book label to front pastedown; Mansfield Park with inner joints strengthened with Japanese tissue, slightly loose in binding but holding; Emma with a small library stamp to front pastedown, and with a stain to top corner from signatures D to H, and a small piece missing from bottom margin of Y4; Northanger Abbey with small book label of Sarah Johnson to front pastedown. All except Northanger Abbey have the book plate of Chris Viveash (the partner of the Austen bibliographer David Gilson), to front pastedown or ffep. All volumes have the additional engraved title and frontispiece (those to Mansfield Park browned and foxed, others with some light foxing, but generally quite bright and clean). Now housed in a leather entry slipcase made by Temple Bookbinders. Scarce in the original cloth Size: 12mo
Seller: Temple Rare Books, Oxford, United Kingdom