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Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/N
- Seller
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Birsay, Orkney, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1897 A good to very good copy of the first edition with Hugh Thomson illustrations in contemporary half leather binding. With introduction by Austin Dobson. The illustrations, with Thomson's acute attention to detail, are a perfect complement to Austen's writing. The binding has gilt titles and decoration with small raised bands to spine and marbled boards and endpapers. Top page edges gilt. The binding is sound and clean with some fading to the spine. It has wear to spine joints and rubbing to the raised bands on the spine.There is wear to spine ends and to corners with a bump to the bottom corner of the back board. Internally there is the armorial bookplate of Charles Francis Aubone Hare to the front pastedown. Contents are complete and clean. There is some spotting to the tissue guard at the frontispiece, light spotting to the side of the title page and light spotting at the endpapers. The page side edges are untrimmed and some edges have slight browning which can just be seen at the foredge.
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
- E C Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033161
- Title
- Mansfield Park
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Illustrator
- Hugh Thomson
- Format/Binding
- Half-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- N
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan and Co., Limited
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Size
- 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- jane austen; hugh thomson; illustrated austen; nineteenth century austen
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
E C Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
E C Books
Biblio member since 2011
Birsay, Orkney
About E C Books
E C Books is a small online bookselling business, specialising in pre 20th century works:natural history, science, history, and travel, aiming for rarer and more unusual books. Our largest stock area is Natural History, where we have a good range of books from the 1700-1800's, many finely illustrated. Other areas include children's books, particularly late 1800's-early 1900's - again illustrated; and literature pre 1900.When you order books from us we ensure that they are properly packed to protect condition, and we always use recorded or 'signed for' postal services for more secure delivery. Please note that we have recently moved to the beautiful Orkney Islands, where we intend to open a bookshop over the next year. Because of our location we cannot guarantee 'next day' delivery but we will get your purchase to you as quickly and safely as we can.Please note that the buyer is responsible for the payment of any tax or duty on import.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- 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....
- Marbled boards
- ...
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