Lot 177
Austen, Jane
Mansfield Park
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
A Novel. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. 8vo (17.5 x 10.7cm), [4] 424 pp., original maroon cloth, rebacked with original spine laid down, labels and endpapers renewed, series-title, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page after Pickering by Greatbatch (with tissue-guard), letterpress title-page, all dated 1833, 4 pp. advertisements at rear, prelims spotted [Gilson D3; Keynes 104; Sadleir 3734a.27]
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).
