Emma, A Novel.
London: Richard Bentley, 1833.
Price: $6,500.00
About the item
Second edition. Frontispiece and vignette title page. 435 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter calf and marbled paper boards with gilt to spine and "Standard Novels" stamped as well as "Emma". Rubbing to edges, foxing to preliminaries, bookplate of Thomas Baskerville Mynors Baskerville (1790-1864); very good. Gilson D2.
Item #372677
The second edition of Emma, the last novel published by Austen during her lifetime. This was a part of the five volume Standard Novels series that Bentley published with illustrated fronstispieces in each volume.
Virginia Woolf said that it contained "all the elements of Jane Austen's greatness [and] the permanent quality of literature."
