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Second edition, revised and corrected by the author and published two years after the first, scarce in the original boards. This copy has a contemporary female provenance, from the library of Margaret Plunkett, Lady Louth (1778-1831), with her ownership signature, dated 1813, on the title pages, and her annotation "Louth Hall" on the front boards. Born in Castlebar, County Mayo, Margaret was the eldest daughter of Randall Plunkett, 13th Baron of Dunsany (1739-1821). She married Thomas Oliver Plunkett, 11th Baron Louth (1757-1823), in 1808. The copy later passed into the collection of Austen's bibliographer David Gilson; loosely inserted are his cataloguing notes and an autograph letter signed, discussing his collection and that of his friend Dorothy Warren, both now at King's College, Cambridge. Gilson notes that he had the three volumes rebacked shortly after buying the set in the early 1970s. The first edition of Sense and Sensibility sold out by July 1813. This second edition appeared in October, and Austen received her copy on 6 November, writing to her sister Cassandra: "My 2nd Edit. has stared me in the face... I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it" (quoted in Gilson, p. 16). Three vols, duodecimo. Untrimmed in original boards, recently rebacked to style, new spine labels. Boards rubbed and worn at edges, occasional foxing and light soiling to contents, neat repairs to vol. I closing marginal tears to pp. 27/8 and 171/2, horizontal tear to p. 303/4 discreetly repaired, touching text with no loss to sense, upper and lower margins of the same page restored with loss to two words. A very good copy. Gilson A2.

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.