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AUSTEN, JANE.
Mansfield Park.
2 volumes. 4 page publisher’s catalogue inserted
at front of volume 1. 8vo, original publisher’s
1
/
4
cloth-backed drab boards, lettering labels
on spines (absent but for trace remnants on each volume, and with small contemporary
institutional labels either perished or remnant only below on each volume), cocked, few
short splits at spine tips, generally mild staining and light wear to boards, corners rubbed
with light exposure; hinges tender, pastedowns coming loose from boards in volume 1,
scattered foxing throughout, at times heavily to volume 2, occasional small chips at deckle,
old penciled numerals on front free endpapers, paper repairs on 2 leaves in volume 1 with
no loss of text; housed in custom drop-back cloth case.
Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1832
[4,000/6,000]
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
,
EXTREMELY RARE IN THE ORIGINAL BINDING
.
One of 1250
copies printed. Few copies of any of Austen’s first American editions have survived.“No appearance
of the 1832 M[ansfield] P[ark] at auction has been traced” (Gilson, rev. ed., 1997).A survey of
ABPC and AE records only one unsophisticated copy sold in the last 30 years. Gilson B4.
