2nd Edition 1837. From the library of Chris Viveash. The second printing of the first one volume edition and the first illustrated edition with a frontispiece illustration and a smaller vignette on the engraved title. It also the 3rd British edition of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Bound in the original Purple Standard library cloth by Bentley. Provenance - Gilson D7. Provenance: From the library of David Gilson & Chris Viveash. Scarce. Gilson comments 'So few of these reprints survive in libraries, and even fewer in original condition, that the following details must be incomplete...' (Gilson p. 225). The book is about good with worn and rubbed cloth/edges but complete. Gilt on spine dulled. Contents good with light foxing and marking to most pages. Title page, pages and frontis age toned and foxed. Light staining to some pages.