Lot 81
Austen (Jane) Novels, 5 vol., rare first American collected edition, London & Boston, Richard Bentley & Little, Brown, and Company, 1853.
Hammer Price: £1,200
Description
Austen (Jane) Novels, 5 vol., first American collected edition, engraved frontispiece to each vol., tissue guards, lacking half-titles, vol.4 (MP) E1&2 tear at lower inner corner, within text, but without loss, some spotting or staining (including to margin of frontispiece of P&P), lightly browned, a few hinges split or splitting, contemporary dark pink calf, gilt, spines in compartments, spines faded and lacking labels, vol.1 upper cover detached, vol.2-4 piece from head of spine, all vol. corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Gilson pp.228-229], 8vo, London & Boston, Richard Bentley & Little, Brown, and Company, 1853.
⁂ Rare first American collected edition, using the sheets of the 1851 London edition with cancel titles.
Description
Austen (Jane) Novels, 5 vol., first American collected edition, engraved frontispiece to each vol., tissue guards, lacking half-titles, vol.4 (MP) E1&2 tear at lower inner corner, within text, but without loss, some spotting or staining (including to margin of frontispiece of P&P), lightly browned, a few hinges split or splitting, contemporary dark pink calf, gilt, spines in compartments, spines faded and lacking labels, vol.1 upper cover detached, vol.2-4 piece from head of spine, all vol. corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Gilson pp.228-229], 8vo, London & Boston, Richard Bentley & Little, Brown, and Company, 1853.
⁂ Rare first American collected edition, using the sheets of the 1851 London edition with cancel titles.
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