Austen (Jane) & Austen Leigh (J.E.), Austen's Works, six-vol...

Hammer

£160

Austen (Jane) & Austen Leigh (J.E.), Austen's Works, six-volume set: comprising Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in one volume together, and A Memoir of Jane Austen [...]/To which is added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, mixed editions, London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1885-1886, contemporary, repaired, and/or restored quarter-calf gilt over marbled boards (S&S lacking upper-cover), marbled edges and endpapers, 8vo, [6]

Provenance: Gertrude Dufdale/Christmas/90, contemporaneous ink MS ownership inscriptions to each flyleaf.

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Please see attached images. Mansfield Park and Pride & Prejudice have been rebacked, and repaired at the pastedown gutter. Mansfield Park has some water staining to the lower-right margin until B2. Sense & Sensibility lacking upper-cover. The rest of the bindings with signs of wear, including rubbing, chipping, etc. The remaining contents generally good with some foxing to prelims.