Mansfield Park
by Austen, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Ward, Lock & Co.. Good with no dust jacket. 1881. Hardcover. 3/8" tear to cloth at tail of spine. 1/2" chip to cloth along edge of tail corner of front board. 2/3" tear to cloth along top edge of front board. Cloth boards and spine rubbed and faded. Owner's signature "Waytt" on half-title page and first leaf of text. 1/2" by 1/8" chip to blank corner of final text leaf.; "New Edition". [2 (advertisements for "The Select Library 2/- Vols.")], [iv], 424 pages. 19th Century blue cloth boards with gilt title "Mansfield Park" on spine. Decorative green endpapers with floral and bird design. Publisher's binding? Page dimensions: 168 x 105mm. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .
Synopsis
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between 1812 and 1814. It was published in July 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. When the novel reached a second edition, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6183
- Title
- Mansfield Park
- Author
- Austen, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1881
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....