Lot 50
  • 50

Austen, Jane

Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
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Description

  • paper and ink
Sense and Sensibility. London: Printed for the Author and published by T. Egerton, 1811



3 volumes, 12mo (6 3/8 x 3 7/8 in.; 161 x 98 mm). Lacks half-title in vol. 1 and terminal blanks in all 3 vols., half-title guarded in vol. 3, strong offsetting from morocco library label in vol. 1 to title-page, washed and pressed with residual foxing and staining throughout vol. 1, quires A–F in vol. 2, and quire B in vol. 3. Sympathetically bound in half mottled calf antique over marbled boards, spines in 6 compartments, russet and black lettering and numbering pieces, plain endpapers, edges uniformly marbled with boards.  

Literature

Gilson A1; Keynes 1; Sadleir 62a

Catalogue Note

First edition.