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[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.