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1. [AUSTEN, Jane] SENSE AND SENSIBILITY A Novel Egerton, 1813 [46672] Second edition. Three vol- umes. 12mo. Original publisher’s paper-covered boards, uncut. With all half-titles, 4 pp. adverts at rear of vol.3. Boards light- ly worn, vol. I lacking spine label, small loss to spine ends, a couple of joints con- servatively repaired, sides rubbed, contents foxed, light stains in the gutters of half a dozen gatherings in vol. III. A very good copy. $35,000 Sense and Sensibility was first
III which clips a letter of text. Excepting these minor flaws, an generally well preserved copy in a handsome binding. $48,000 The author’s third novel, written between 1811 and 1813, which quickly found a publisher on the strength of her previous two novels. Despite Egerton’s confidence, he only published 1250 copies in the first edition in May 1814. These were sold out by November, and John Murray later “expressed astonishment that so small an edition of such a work should have been sent into the world.”
3. [AUSTEN, Jane] PRIDE AND PREJUDICE A Novel. In Two Volumes. By the Au- thor of “Sense and Sensibili- ty” Printed for T. Egerton, 1817 [46530] Third edition. 12mo. Two vol- umes, bound in nineteenth century full green morocco, by Francis Bedford, with raised bands to the spine, the com- partments richly tooled in gilt; triple ruled gilt borders to cov- ers with floriate devices to the corners and elaborately gilt tooled turn-ins. Marbled end- papers, all edges red and gilt. Half titles to both volumes. A near fine set, internally fresh and well margined with just occasional light scattered fox- ing. Light wear to the front joint of vol. I. An attractive, well preserved set. $27,000
published in late 1811, and the first edition was sold out by July 1813. This second edition, which saw significant revision of the text by Austen and the substitution of “By the author of Pride and Prejudice” for “By a Lady” on the title page, appeared in October 1813. Austen received her copy on November 6, and wrote to her sister Cassandra, “My 2nd Edit. has stared me in the face… I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it” (Gilson, p. 16). Gilson A1 2. AUSTEN, Jane MANSFIELD PARK: A Novel. In Three Vol- umes. By the author of “Sense and Sensibility,” and “Pride and Prejudice.” Egerton, 1814 [45901] First edition. Three volumes, duodecimo (175 x 107 mm). Tan
full calf, neatly rebacked to style, raised bands and red morocco title labels lettered in gilt to second and fourth com- partments, fillet borders gilt to covers. Lacking half-titles. Gothic initials I.D.E.T in gilt to the upper covers. A handsome set, with only minor wear to extremities and a bump to the lower front corner of vol III. In- ternally clean with occasional foxing and finger marks, one or two larger stains in vol. 2. Short marginal closed tears to G4 and K6 in vol. I and E7 of vol. II and a chip to the corner of I2 in vol.
The author’s second and most famous novel, which has become one of the most prominent literary works to come from the nineteenth century. The first draft of the novel was written under the working title of ‘First Impressions’ in 1796. In 1797 Jane Austen’s father wrote to the publisher Cadell to ask if he would publish the novel. The offer was rejected by return of post. In 1800 The Minerva Press published a novel by Margaret Holford entitled First Impressions, which probably led to Austen chang- ing the title of the work. In the following years, Pride and Prejudice was heavily rewritten and the copyright eventually sold to Egerton in 1812. There is no record of the number of copies of the first edition, but Keynes suggests 1500 as the probable print run. The book sold briskly and was reprinted within the year and then again in 1817. These however, were the only three editions by Austen’s origi- nal publisher and the copyright was subsequently sold by Egerton’s ex- ecuters to Richard Bentley in 1832. Like all Regency editions of Austen’s work, copies retaining the half-titles are rare.
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