AUSTEN (Jane).

Northanger Abbey. [and:] Persuasion.

Frontispiece, with tissue guard. Small 8vo. Original brown embossed cloth, spine stamped in gilt, yellow endpapers, edges untrimmed. London, Richard Bentley, 1854.

£650.00

An early Bentley edition of Jane Austen’s amusing parody of Gothic romance, published posthumously in 1818 along with Persuasion, her final completed work of fiction.

Neat ownership inscription to front pastedown, faint dampstain to lower margin of front endpapers and half title, some foxing to outer leaves with a few minor instances of occasional spotting throughout, slight lean to text block, extremities slightly worn with light chipping to tips of spine.

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255299