Austen, Jane.

8vo, 5 volumes, volumes XXIII, XXV, XXVII, XXVIII and XXX of Bentley's "Standard Novels" series, the first collected edition of the author's novels, frontispieces and vignette titles in vols.  XXIII, XXVII, XXVIII and XXX, series title pages in vols. XXIII, XXVII, and XXVIII, contemporary calf,  lettered and numbered on the spines, two volumes rebacked, joints partially split, some repairs, some pages browned, soiled or with a few tears

bound for the Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow, gilt device and lettering on upper covers

Gilson D1, D2, D3, D4, D5

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There was no reissue of Jane Austen's novels after 1818 until Richard Bentley decided to publish them in this series of Standard Novels