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Jane Austen, Reginald Brimley Johnson [Editor]. Sense and Sensibility. London J M Dent 1901, 1901.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Description: A beautifully designed 1901 version of Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility. Light green boards with dark green and gilt decoration; top edge gilt, a little dusty; bookseller's label 'A & R Milne Aberdeen' to first pastedown; a little spotting to preliminaries. Illustrated by C E Brock with a frontispiece to Vol I of Jane Austen as a young woman. This is the third edition from 1901, first published thus in 1898. A very good set. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item
Seller: Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, United Kingdom
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. J M Dent & Co, London, 1901.
Price: US$256.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Third edition in this form: complete in 2 volumes, edited by R Brimley Johnson, with portrait frontispiece of Jane Austen, and 12 colour plates by C E Brock. In original decorative cloth bindings with gilt titles to spine and front board. The top page edges are gilt; the remaining edges are uncut. With half titles, showing that they were volumes I and II of Brimley Johnson's series; colour frontispieces; decorative title pages; listing of illustrations; and text with head and tailpieces. Volume I has a listing of Austen's novels together with a short biography. All the plates are present as called for and are tissue guarded. Vol I has 163 pp and Vol II has 218 pp. The bindings are sound and tight, having been rebacked - preserving the original spines. The front boards are slightly faded with some browning to edges. Spines faded. Vol I has a small brown spot on the front board and a couple of small indentations on the bottom edge of the back board. Internally the decorative endpapers are present with professional repair at the joints. Contents are clean with toning to text pages and occasional light spotting - particularly around top margins. A number of tissue guards have been replaced. Vol I has a crease to the bottom corner of the front free endpaper and a further crease at the bottom corner of p 87. There are some professional paper repairs to page edges. Vol II has its original page marker. Paper repair to side edge of p 183/4. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
Price: US$1732.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Complete set in original decorative cloth bindings, with illustrations by C E Brock and H M Brock and edited by R Brimley Johnson. The set is a mixed edition, being either the 3rd or the 4th edition with the exception of Pride and Prejudice Vol I which is a 1st in this form. The bindings have gilt titles to spine and front board. The top page edges are gilt; the remaining edges are uncut. All have decorative endpapers, half titles (with edition information to verso), colour frontispieces, decorative titles, illustration lists, and text with 5 further colour plates. Some have their original page markers. Sense and Sensibility Vol I: 3rd edn, frontispiece portrait of Jane Austen, list of Austen novels and Memoir, text 163 pp. Vol II: text 218 pp with 7 plates including frontispiece. Pride and Prejudice Vol I: 1898, armorial bookplate of Henley Evans, Clifton to front pastedown, preface, text 191pp. Vol II: 1901 4th ed, 210 pp. Mansfield Park Vol I: 3rd ed 1902, preface, 245pp. Vol II: 3rd ed 1902, 249pp. Emma Vol I: 3rd ed 1901, preface, 245pp. Vol II: 3rd ed 1901, 258 pp. Northanger Abbey: 3rd 1901, preface, 245 pp. Persuasion: 3rd 1901, preface 261pp. All the bindings bar P&P I have been professionally rebacked with repair to inner spine joints, and are sound and tight. The bindings are clean and some have slight fading - particularly to the spines. P&P II and MP II have some browning at the bottom edge of the back board. Emma I has a bump to the bottom corner of the back board. Some have light browning to endpapers and occasional some brown marking at the endpaper joints. The majority of tissue guards have been replaced. Contents are generally clean and sound with the occasional small mark or light spot. There are a few professional paper repairs. Please enquire if you would like to see additional images to further assess condition.
Seller: ecbooks, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom