Property from an Important American Collection

[Austen, Jane]

Mansfield Park: A Novel. Printed For T. Egerton, 1814

3 volumes, 12mo (185 x 110 mm). Half-titles, 1pp. publisher's advertisements at end of volume III for the second editions of Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice; volume I with a few closed margina♑l tears, minor and scattered foxing, F1 with spot of browning affecting integrity of the margin, longer tear repaired to Q1, final gathering loose but holding with some marginal worming; volume II with very occasional and scattered foxing; volume III with occasional and scattered spotting, gathering F incorrectly bound but with all pages present. Original blue-gray paper-covered boar🙈ds with darker blue-green paper spines, originally devoid of labels (as the Rhiwlas copy) with title and volume number on each spine in contemporary manuscript; extremities rubbed, chips to spines, joints weak but chords holding. Housed in custom blue morocco-backed case and folding chemise.