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Lot 131
Sale 6417 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Sep 10, 2025
10:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$4,480
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Lot Description
[Fine Bindings] Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice
London: George Allen, (1894). Large paper edition (one of 275 unnumbered copies). Large 8vo. xxvii, (i), 476, (2) pp. Preface by George Saintsbury. Illustrations on China paper by Hugh Thomson. Finely bound in full brick red niger, stamped in gilt and in black, multi-colored leather pictorial onlay on front board depicting Elizabeth Bennett reading Jane's letters (after the frontispiece: "Reading Jane's Letters), some spotting to lower front board; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers; for Asprey, London. Gilson E78
A near-fine copy, handsomely bound.


