Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
[AUSTEN, JANE.] Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. In Three Volumes. 3 volumes. Half-titles and final blanks to each. 175 x 105 mm. 12mo, twentieth century 3/4 tan calf and marbled boards, spine in six compartments, red morocco gilt lettering piece in one; small paper repair to first blank in vol. 1 and F5 in vol. 2, some browning, scattered foxing, heaviest to front and end matter of each volume. An interesting association copy of the second, revised edition of Austen's first published novel. Charlotte Jeffrey's copy, with her undated ownership signature (slightly trimmed) to top of title page in vols. 2 and 3. Charlotte Jeffrey was the neice of English radical journalist and politician John Wilkes and the second wife of Lord Jeffrey, co-founder and editor of The Edinburgh Review. Gilson A2; Keynes 2. London: for the Author by C. Roworth and published by T. Egerton, 1813