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[AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1814)]. Mansfield Park: A Novel... By the Author of "Sense and Sensibility," and "Pride and Prejudice". London: T. Egerton, 1814.
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[AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1814)]. Mansfield Park: A Novel... By the Author of "Sense and Sensibility," and "Pride and Prejudice". London: T. Egerton, 1814.
3 volumes, 12o (172 x 104 mm). Advertisement leaf in vol. 3. (Lacking half-titles.) Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards (rebacked in the late 19th-century). Provenance: John Thomas Stanley, Alderley (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION. Mansfield Park was composed at Chawton between February 1811 and June 1813, and published in May of the following year in a relatively small edition of perhaps 1250 copies, priced at 18 shillings in boards. This was on a commission basis, Jane Austen retaining the copyright to the work which was sold out by November. Volumes I-II, printed by Sidney, are in Pica roman by Vincent Figgins, of probably ca. 1798; volume III was printed by Roworth in a Caslon Pica roman. Gilson A6; Keynes p. 11; Sadleir I, 62c. (3)
3 volumes, 12o (172 x 104 mm). Advertisement leaf in vol. 3. (Lacking half-titles.) Contemporary half-calf, marbled boards (rebacked in the late 19th-century). Provenance: John Thomas Stanley, Alderley (bookplates).
FIRST EDITION. Mansfield Park was composed at Chawton between February 1811 and June 1813, and published in May of the following year in a relatively small edition of perhaps 1250 copies, priced at 18 shillings in boards. This was on a commission basis, Jane Austen retaining the copyright to the work which was sold out by November. Volumes I-II, printed by Sidney, are in Pica roman by Vincent Figgins, of probably ca. 1798; volume III was printed by Roworth in a Caslon Pica roman. Gilson A6; Keynes p. 11; Sadleir I, 62c. (3)