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Lot 232

AUSTEN (JANE)
Novels, 6 works in 5 vol., Richard Bentley, 1833

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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AUSTEN (JANE)

Novels, 6 works in 5 vol., additional engraved title with vignette and frontispiece in each volume, without half-titles, light dampstains to frontispiece and titles of volumes 1 and 2, small blank piece of margin to pp.11/12 in volume 2 torn away, contemporary polished calf gilt, spines elaborately tooled with red and green gilt morocco lettering labels, a few small abrasions to sides [Gilson D6], 8vo, Richard Bentley, 1833

Footnotes

THE FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. "No English reissue of JA's novels is known after 1818 until in 1832 Richard Bentley decided to include them in his series of Standard Novels" (Gilson, p.211). Bentley first issued each volume individually as part of his "Standard Novels" series, and later in the year reissued them as a collected edition, ".. elegantly printed and embellished" according to his advertisement in the Athenaeum, 26 October 1833.

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