Comments on: Complete Set of the 1833 Bentley Edition of The Six to be Auctioned in Dublin http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/ Jane Austen's life, times and works explained and discussed Tue, 07 May 2013 13:39:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jane is as popular as ever… « Austenonly http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15853 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:42:34 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15853 [...] The complete set of five volumes of  Bentley’s first illustrated editions of Jane Austen&#821… realised a sale price €3500. The pre-auction estimate was for €1300-1500, therefore you can see that the sale price was over double the estimate. Go here to see all the sale results, particularly that of the Austen novels, which were Lot 531. The books were from the stock of the late antiquarian book dealer,  James Fenning and the sale sadly signified the end to over a century of Dublin bookselling by the Fenning family. [...]

]]> By: jfwakefield http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15705 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:50:22 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15705 Me too….

]]> By: jfwakefield http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15704 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:50:15 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15704 I appreciate teh sentiment!

]]> By: jfwakefield http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15702 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:49:17 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15702 Ah, my days of posting all my engravings in an attempt at being generous might be limited,as I’ve discovered that unscrupulous people have been gathering them for their commercial usage, without referenda to me, and when that is specifically forbidden by my copyright notice. Sad but true and quite shocking when you consider who has been doing it. Im afraid I might not be sharing all with you so readily in the future.

]]> By: jfwakefield http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15701 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:47:05 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15701 Im not bidding,Laurel , though I would love to ;) *heaves heavy sigh*

]]> By: Delicious History Blog http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15675 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 22:16:30 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15675 Oh how I want them!

]]> By: cathyallen http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15674 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:48:46 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15674 Sending you immediately, my check…err…cheque… for 1,000,000.00 dollars … err…pounds, to buy same. Stop.

Well, I’d better Stop, because it would bounce from The USA to The UK! But you know I would if I could! :-)

]]> By: Janeite Deb http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15672 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:23:18 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15672 Thank you for the heads-up Julie! – hope your temptation is satisfied! – we will expect postings of all the illustrations, which _are_ giggle-worthy as Laurel Ann notes!
Best,
deb

]]> By: Laurel Ann (Austenprose) http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15671 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:54:21 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15671 Keeping my fingers crossed for you Julie. It would be such a pleasure to have these in your library. The illustrations make me giggle though. I have re-blogged to my readers on Austenprose. Thanks for the head’s up.

]]> By: Laurel Ann (Austenprose) http://austenonly.com/2012/10/16/complete-set-of-the-1833-bentley-edition-of-the-six-to-be-auctioned-in-dublin/#comment-15670 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:49:09 +0000 http://austenonly.com/?p=9074#comment-15670 Reblogged this on Austenprose – A Jane Austen Blog and commented:
Julie at Austenonly shares the news about a beautiful set of Austen novels on the block. Oh how I wish.

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