Northanger Abbey, [and] Persuasion

A very trim copy of Richard Bentley's 1854 edition of two Jane Austen novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, bound in a most attractive publisher’s bindings of blind-stamped brown cloth. Yellow-coated endpapers and a 19th century ownership inscription of ‘Edgar Jones’ to the recto of the 1833 engraved frontispiece which has a tissue guard and is followed by the title page. Persuasion has its own separate title page half way through the volume. This edition has particular significance as being among the first illustrated edition of the work.