Lot 1209 , Austen, Jen - Bentley's Standard Novels, 5 vols. 1st Editions (their first English re-issue since 1818), comprising - Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey / Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice. each wi

° Austen, Jen - Bentley's Standard Novels, 5 vols. 1st Editions (their first English re-issue since 1818), comprising - Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey / Persuasion, Pride & Prejudice. each with series / half title, frontispiece, engraved pictorial and printed titles; 20th cent. half calf and holland cloth, gilt ruled and blind decorated panelled spines with maroon labels, marbled e/ps., sm. cr. 8vo. Richard Bentley, 1833
£2,000-3,000

Condition:
S &S - v.sl. frontis. offset, final leaf sl. gutter damage at top partly affecting 7 of last 8 text lines with a clean tear through 6 words (no loss and clear of printer's imprint on verso) and damage beneath on blank paper; v.sl. tear foot of printed title. (v), vi-xv, 332pp. The Memoir of the Author (pp.v-xv) by her brother, the Rev. Henry Austen. nb. all vols. with old (?contemp.) ownership head of series title - (?) Mr. B.Marshall, series no. xxiii; Emma - light browning series and engr. titles, few spots printed title, sl. and light browining final leaf; (3), 436pp. series no. xxv; Mansfield Park - series title browning and fore-edge fraying, frontis. marginal light foxing (incl. caption), engr. title browning, printed title badly browned lh. side (and verso) also p. (1) and lighter pp. 2 and 3, upper margins pp.4-10, gutter margin also pp. 4 and 5; pp. 97-100 sm. stain lower margin (just touches text at cornr). pp. 3-424. series no. xxvii; Northanger Abbey/Persuasion - series title some browning and clean tear ( cms. above and just touching quotation) and with 3 holes at gutter margin (clear of printing) and all just avoiding advert. on verso, sl. tear on lower edge, frontis. marginal soiling and on verso, title with frontis. offset (and other soiling). (3), 440pp. (Persuasion with separate title in continuous pagination; the printed title in prelims. being for Northanger Abbey only); series no. xxv111; p & P. - title with frontis offset and light browning, light browning printed title, p.2 sm. text mark. (3), 340pp. series no. xxx. nb. all vols. with pencilled note re binding (mostly lh. margin final text page) and sm. ink note - rebound 1971 (foot back pastedown). Binding - an acceptable amateur rebind - some gilt letters are smudged and the maroon leather is flaky in places - but together with the restrained design and light grey of the e/ps. conveys a reasonable imitation of an 'antique' set. nb. there are no protective tissues for engraved leaves; there are blanks fore and aft (some possibly replacements). Gilson D1-D5

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