Books

[Literary Classic] Bentley's 'Standard Novels' edition. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.[xvi]; 331; [1], imprint. Engraved frontispiece illustration by Pickering. Publisher's dark brown cloth blind-stamped with heavy foliate border to covers, spine richly gilt with floral and armorial tooling, original price 2/6 gilt to spine, yellow-coated advertisement endpapers, edges untrimmed. Discreet bookplate 'Pamela Lister' to pastedown, contents clean, light (expected) foxing to plate, covers particularly clean, gilt is a little dulled but not rubbed, some near-invisible archival repair to joints/endcaps. A fine copy of a scarce early illustrated edition, which was first published by Richard Bentley in 1833; this is the more ornate of all the publisher's cloth cases we have encountered, the others not featuring floral gilt backs. Originally titled "Elinor and Marianne", "Sense and Sensibility" was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be published, in 1811, under the pseudonym "A Lady". The contrasting personalities of two sisters are the centre of the story, supported by a wealth of satirically portrayed minor characters. The title has been adapted for film and television a number of times, most notably in Ang Lee's 1995 Academy Award winning version, starring Emma Thompson (who wrote the screenplay), with stellar support form Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman and Hugh Laurie.

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1811. It was her first published work, which she wrote under the pseudonym 'A Lady'. The story follows the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, as they navigate love, romance, and societal expectations.