Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (Dent, 1908)
AUSTEN, Jane. Mansfield Park. London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1908.
Reprint of the fourth Dent edition (1906). Illustrated with colour plates by H.M. Brock. Edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. Printed from the second edition (John Murray, 1816) of Mansfield Park. Complete in two volumes. Part of a 10-volume series collection of the novels of Jane Austen.
Author’s third novel, and the first to be written at Chawton. Mansfield Park is the most modern and autobiographical of all Jane Austen’s novels.
2 volumes: vi, 245; 249; 12 colour plates. Small 8vo, original decorative cloth, gilt lettering, t.e.g., pages uncut. Decorative endpapers and title-pages. Second volume with the orig. silk bookmark.
A delightful set, with the front boards depicting the ideal Jane Austen heroine dressed in a charming Regency frock. In bright, beautiful condition.