Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. In Two Volumes. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF THE NOVEL TO BE PUBLISHED SINCE THE EXPIRATION OF THE COPYRIGHT DATE OF 1839. BOUND IN WITH EACK VOLUME ARE THE EXTREMELY SCAR
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H. G. Clarke and Co. London. 1844. H. G. Clarke and Co. London. 1844. First edition thus. In two volumes. 12mo. 13.5 x 9.5cm. Handsomely bound in full morocco, with decorative panels tooled in gilt and in blind to both upper and lower boards of each volume. Gilt decorations to compartments of spine, all page edges gilt. Bound in - to both volumes, before the title pages, are the gilt and coloured decorated portion of the earliest Jane Austen wrappers, (though the concept was more like gift wrap than modern-day dust wrappers). See below for details on these fledgling dust wrappers that usually were used for annuals and other gift volumes. Very few of these have ever been available to see, let alone own. Sense and Sensibility was Austen's first book, originally published in 1811. Volume I is slightly rubbed to extremities, has an ownership inscription dated 1847. 239 pages, rear free endpaper is loose. Volume II is slightly more rubbed to spine and to extremities, head of spine is frayed. It has the same ownership inscription. 224 pages with one gathering comprising of pages 193-208 is partially loose and stands proud of the main body of text. Generally a very clean and sound set. EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE. FROM WIKIPEDIA. The oldest publishers' dust jacket now on record was issued in 1829 on an English annual, Friendship's Offering for 1830. It was discovered at the Bodleian Library in Oxford by Michael Turner, a former curator and Head of Conservation at the Library. Its existence
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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