Lot 175
Austen, Jane
Sense and Sensibility
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
A Novel. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 8vo (16.1 x 9.4cm), [iii]-xv 331 pp., near-contemporary half calf, twin labels to spine, bands tooled in gilt, marbled sides, endpapers and edges, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page by Greatbatch after Pickering, letterpress title-page, all dated 1833, bound without series-title and the 2 terminal blanks (Y7-8), spine and joints slightly rubbed, frontispiece and vignette title spotted, occasional spots and marks elsewhere [Gilson D1; Keynes 44; Sadleir 3734a.23]
Footnote
First Bentley edition, the first edition in one volume, and the first to be illustrated. Bentley's editions of Austen, published as part of his 'Standard Novels' series in 1832-3 (and later in 1833 re-issued as a collected edition), were of great importance in introducing Austen to a wider audience following their original appearance in the 1810s. There were intervening editions in French and German, and American editions, but ‘no English reissue of [Jane Austen’s] novels is known after 1818 until in 1832 Richard Bentley decided to include them in his series of Standard Novels' (Gilson, p. 211).
