New Acquisitions Spring 2022 – 4 – Bauman Rare Books Emma 4. AUSTEN, Jane. Emma. London, 1836. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter red pebbled red morocco. $4000. Third edition of the last novel Austen published in her lifetime, her exquisitely comedic and unerringly insightful social satire—“artistry… as elaborate as any novelist has ever achieved,” with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page, in contemporary morocco. Interior generally clean, binding with some light rubbing and shelfwear, but sound and quite attractive. Excellent and desirable in contemporary morocco. Mansfield Park 2. AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. London, 1833. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter pebbled red morocco. $3500. Third edition of Austen’s beloved third novel—the first one-volume edition, and the first illustrated edition— with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page, in contemporary morocco. Interior generally clean, binding with some light rubbing and shelf-wear, but sound and quite attractive. Excellent and desirable in contemporary morocco. “No English reissue of Austen’s novels is known after 1818 until in 1832 Richard Bentley decided to include them in his series of Standard Novels… Bentley’s reprinting of the novels, each complete in one volume, was presumably intended for the private buyer.” (Gilson, 211). Northanger Abbey and Persuasion 3. AUSTEN, Jane. Northanger Abbey; Persuasion. London, 1833. 12mo, contemporary three-quarter pebbled red morocco. $3500. Second edition of the last of Austen’s novels to be published, with engraved frontispiece illustration and engraved vignette title page, in contemporary morocco. Penciled gift inscription. Interior generally clean, binding with some light rubbing and shelf-wear, but sound and quite attractive. Excellent and desirable in contemporary morocco. Three Jane Austen Novels
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