BAUMAN RARE BOOKS 16 1833 First Illustrated Edition Of Mansfield Park, Austen’s Third Novel 10AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. London, 1833. Small octavo, period-style three-quarter tan calf gilt. $6500 First one-volume edition and first illustrated edition, third overall edition of Austen’s beloved third novel, with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page, handsomely bound. “The subject of Mansfield Park is education, or the discipline and training of the feelings… [It is] an intensely moving and intelligent comedy about modern England” (Honan, 338-48). Austen’s novels “were published anonymously, though the authorship was an open secret to her friends. It was first made public in a short biographical notice prefixed to the two posthumous novels in 1818. Miss Austen’s genius received little recognition during her life” (DNB). First published in 1814, with a second edition in 1816; an American edition appeared in 1832. Engraved title page and frontispiece expertly cleaned, otherwise only occasional mild foxing to text; two leaves creased, with small unobtrusive repairs. An excellent, beautifully bound copy. “Money Can Only Give Happiness Where There Is Nothing Else To Give It” 11AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. London, 1833. Small octavo, period-style threequarter tan calf gilt. $13,500 First illustrated and first single-volume edition, the first to identify Austen as the author, third overall edition of Jane Austen’s extraordinarily rare first novel, handsomely bound. Sense and Sensibility was Austen’s first published novel—Austen had sold Susan (the first version of Northanger Abbey) first, but the publisher failed to publish it. Sense and Sensibility “does brightly respond to an interesting religious and ethical debate over the philosophy of sentiment… [The popular view held that morality] depends on the ‘heart’ and not on the ‘head… Rational moralists opposed the tendency, and a debate was in full swing by the 1790s when novel after novel took up the twin themes of prudence and benevolence, reason and passion, head and heart, or sense and sensibility” (Honan, Jane Austen, 275-77). The second edition appeared in1813, two years after the first. Engraved title page and frontispiece expertly cleaned, otherwise only occasional mild foxing to text. An excellent, beautifully bound copy.
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