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Sense & Sensibility Sense & Sensibility George bayntun Manvers Street • Bath • BA1 1JW • UK 01225 466000 • [email protected] www.georgebayntun.com 1. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title with vignette (foxed). First Bentley Edition. 8vo. [180 x 110 x 23 mm]. xv, [i], 331, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's original plum coloured glazed linen boards, rebacked in cloth with paper label, new endleaves, untrimmed edges. [ebc7131] London: [printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Late Colburn and Bentley); Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; Cumming, Dublin; and Galignani, Paris, 1833 £1250 Gilson D1. With the preliminary title, headed "Standard Novel. No.XXIII". Before this is an eight page advertisement for "An Improved Edition of the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, With a Life, Glossarial Notes, and One Hundred and Seventy Illustrations from the Plates in Boydell's Edition". A very good clean copy in the first issue binding, which has been neatly repaired. Without the final two blank leaves. Given by Chris Viveash to John Jordan, with his booklabel (no.709). 2. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. Engraved frontispiece and additional engraved title with vignette. First Bentley Edition. 8vo. [171 x 106 x 25 mm]. [iii], vi-xv, [i], 331, [1] pp. Newly bound by Bayntun-Riviere in old style half calf, marbled paper sides, the spine divided into six panels with raised bands flanked by gilt fillets, lettered on green and red goatskin labels, green endleaves, marbled edges. [ebc7165] London: [printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode for] Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, (Late Colburn and Bentley): Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; Cumming, Dublin; and Galigani, Paris, 1833 £1250 Gilson D1. Without the preliminary title headed "Standard Novel, No.XXIII", but with the final two blank leaves. Light damp-stain at head of opening leaves and a few minor spots, but a very good copy. With the contemporary ink signature of Mary Anne Harvey at the head of A3. 3. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. Engraved frontispiece and engraved additional title-page with vignette (lightly foxed). Second Bentley Edition. 8vo. [169 x 105 x 21 mm]. xv, [i], 331, [1] pp. Bound in contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, smooth spine divided into five panels by gilt double fillets, lettered in the second on a black label, plain endleaves, red sprinkled edges. (Joints, headcaps and tips of corners rubbed). [ebc7132] London: [printed by A. Spottiswoode for] Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1837 £1000 Gilson D7. A reprint of the 1833 edition (Gilson D1). With the preliminary title, headed "Standard Novels. No.XXIII". A few trivial spots but a very good copy. With the early ink signature of W. Bradshaw at the head of the printed title. This is the bibliographer David Gilson's copy, with his calligraphic bookplate and pencil acquisition note: "Bought from A. P. & R. Baker, Durham, August 1974". Given by him to John Jordan in December 1982, with Jordan's booklabel (no.3). 4. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. Two volumes bound in one. 16mo. [130 x 88 x 30 mm]. 240p; 224p. Bound in contemporary or early dark green cloth, smooth spine lettered in gilt between gilt double fillets, glazed yellow endleaves, sprinkled edges. [ebc7033] London: H. G. Clarke and Co., 1844 £750 Gilson E2. The first separate edition of Sense and Sensibility to be published after the expiry of the copyright in 1839. With the half-title. Small chip to blank head of title-page and first page of text. A fine copy. Ink signature of Alice Vernon Harcourt (1845-1919) on front endleaf and booklabel of John Jordan (no.22). 5. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. 8vo. [168 x 105 x 20 mm]. [3], 6-286 pp. Bound in near contemporary half red calf, marbled paper sides, spine divided into six panels by raised bands, lettered in the second and third on blue and citron labels, the others with a small gilt floral tool and corners, marbled endleaves and edges. (Rubbed). [ebc7192] London: [printed by Savill, Edwards and Co. for] George Routledge and Sons, The Broadway, Ludgate. New York: 416, Broome Street, [c.1865] £250 Gilson E12. First published in 1849 as "The Railway Library, No.8", printed by Billing, with Routledge's address as Soho Square. It was reprinted in 1850 and 1851, without a printer's name, again in 1852 and 1853, with Routledge's address as Farringdon Street, and in 1855 with the addition of "New York: 18 Beekman Street". It was reissued in Routledge's Ruby Series in 1875 (in larger format). Gilson makes no mention of this intermediary edition. The firm became George Routledge & Sons and moved to 7 Broadway, Ludgate Hill in 1865. Without the half-title. Small stain at head of pp.202/3 and a few corners turned down. A good copy. With the booklabel of John Jordan (no.23). 6. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. Woodcut frontispiece of Willoughby assisting Marianne after her fall, in the company of a small dog. Woodcut vignette on additional title. 8vo. [187 x 120 x 26 mm]. 400pp. Bound in publisher's original green cloth over bevelled boards, the front cover blocked in black and lettered in gilt, the spine blocked in black and gilt and lettered in gilt, the rear cover blocked in blind, yellow pictorial endleaves, plain edges. (Corners and headcaps slightly bumped). [ebc7177] London: W. Nicholson & Sons, 26, Paternoster Square, E.C. and Albion Works, Wakefield, [c.1880] £300 Not in Gilson and unrecorded on COPAC. With the half-title. A fine copy of an attractive edition. 7. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. New Edition. Engraved frontispiece. 8vo. [193 x 126 x 28 mm]. [2]ff, 322, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, the covers blocked in blind, the spine in gilt, plain endleaves and edges. (Tip of one corner worn). [ebc7191] London: [printed by Spottiswood and Co. for] Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, 1882 £125 Gilson D8. A reprint of the edition of 1870, which was also reprinted in 1875. A very good copy. With the booklabel of John Jordan (no.8). 8. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. Woodcut frontispiece of Willoughby raising Marianne Dashwood from the ground in the company of a large dog. 8vo. [188 x 122 x 25 mm]. 379, [1], [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original light grey cloth, the front cover blocked in brown, the spine in brown and gold, the rear cover with blind rules, plain endleaves and edges. (A little rubbed and a few minor marks). [ebc7174] London: [printed by Woodfall & Kinder for] George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill; New York: 9 Lafayette Place, [1883] £175 Gilson E60. With the same imprint as Gilson’s edition and Woodfall & Kinder's address is given as Milford Lane, Strand, London, W.C. The advertisements are as listed, beginning with "Jane Austen's Novels. An entirely New Edition, handsomely printed in crown 8vo". The binding appears to be the same as copies found at New College, Oxford and the Widener Library, at Harvard. A very good copy, with the ink signature of Emily M. Foster, dated 1883, which is evidence of this being an early issue. 9. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. Woodcut frontispiece of Willoughby raising Marianne Dashwood from the ground in the company of a large dog. 8vo. [189 x 120 x 24 mm]. 379pp. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, covers and spine blocked in brown, with a gilt block on the front and gilt lettering on the spine, black glazed endleaves, plain edges. (Slightly rubbed and two small white marks on the spine). [ebc7173] London: [printed by Woodfall & Kinder for] George Routledge and Sons, Broadway, Ludgate Hill; New York: 9 Lafayette Place [c. 1890] £175 Gilson E60. With the same imprint as Gilson's edition of 1883 and Woodfall and Kinder's address is given as Milford Lane, Strand, London, W.C. However, there are no advertisements and it is not in the stated binding of paper boards printed in red, blue and black reproducing the scene from the frontispiece, nor in the two variants noted. Some light spotting or foxing but a very good copy. Booklabel of John Jordan (no.49). 10 11 12 10. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. Woodcut frontispiece of Willoughby raising Marianne Dashwood from the ground in the company of a large dog. 8vo. [190 x 123 x 25 mm]. 379, [1, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's original plum coloured cloth, the front cover and spine lettered in gilt, brown decorated endleaves with "GRS" monogram, plain edges. (Headcaps and corners a little bumped). [ebc7170] London: [printed by Woodfall & Kinder for] George Routledge and Sons, Limited, Broadway, Ludgate Hill, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York [c. 1890] £150 Gilson E60 refers to a copy at St. Peter's College, Oxford, with the same imprint and the address of Woodfall & Kinder given as 70 to 76, Long Acre, London W.C., as here. He suggests it may be a later issue of the 1883 edition. The St. Peter's copy is in dark blue cloth, and has advertisements for the "Florin Edition" in red cloth. We are in plum or red cloth and have four pages of advertisements for "Every Boy's Library", "Ruby Series", "Juvenile Books" and "The Pansy Books". A good copy, with the ink signature of E. J. Smith. 11. AUSTEN (Jane). Sense and Sensibility. A Novel. 8vo.
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