A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the author of "Sense and Sensibility," and "Pride and Prejudice."
Mansfield Park: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the author of "Sense and Sensibility," and "Pride and Prejudice."
Egerton, 1814.
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 compartments, 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. Internally clean with occasional foxing and finger marks, with 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. III which removed one letter of text. Excepting these minor flaws, an generally well preserved copy in a handsome binding.
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."
Stock ID: 45901
£35,000.00
