Lot 5
  • 5

Austen, Jane

Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
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Description

  • paper and ink
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. London: T. Egerton, 1813



3 volumes, 12mo (6 3/4 x 4 in.; 170 x 100 mm). Half-titles; light, scattered staining in all 3 vols. but withal a clean copy, a few short marginal tears in vol. 1, oxidized catchword in 1:O8, paper creased in lower right corner of 2:F1 and so printed. Contemporary mottled calf, smooth spines with gilt rules resembling chained links; spine labels lacking on vols. 1–2, vol. 1 boards detached, joints starting on vols. 2–3, craquelure on spines, minor loss to head of spine of vol. 3.

Provenance

Susanna Oyler (19th-century bookplate)

Literature

Gilson A1; Keynes 1; Sadleir 62a

Catalogue Note

First edition, in a contemporary calf binding.