Persuasion [The Series of English Idylls]

by Austen, Jane

$250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · In dust jacket

London and New York: J. M. Dent Co./E. P. Dutton Co., 1909. Book. Illus. by C. E. Brock. Good-VG. Hardcover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Light green cloth, lettered and elaborately decorated in gilt, deckled text block edges with top edge in gilt. Modest surface rubbing/soiling to boards. Cloth apparently mended along rear joint. Minor scattered internal foxing. Presentation book plate (a Form VI award) mounted inside front cover, with some offsetting onto flyleaf, which also shows a vintage bookseller s tag. viii,216 pp., 24 color plates. Quite uncommon, apparently the scarcest entry in the series..

• Publisher: J. M. Dent & Co./E. P. Dutton & Co.
• Year: 1909
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: Hardcover

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