[AUSTEN (JANE)] PRIDE AND PREJUDICE A NOVEL... BY THE AUTHOR...

Estimate

£2,000 - £3,000

[AUSTEN (JANE)] PRIDE AND PREJUDICE A NOVEL... BY THE AUTHOR OF "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY", 1813 three vols, 12mo, first edition, half titles, early ownership signature to titles (scored through on vols II and III), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, worn, G Sidney for T Egerton, Military Library (3)

Provenance: The Reverend Edward Graves Meyrick (1780-1839) of Ramsbury, Wiltshire. Jane Austen's favourite nephew and subsequent biographer, James Edward Austen-Lee (1798-1874) was sent, aged 13, as a boarder to E G Meyrick's School at Ramsbury.