1905. First Edition Thus. 247 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine. Methuen's Standard Library, volume I in the works of Austen. 40 pages of publisher's ads to rear. Lower page edges deckled. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Endpapers and text block edges noticeably foxed. Front hinge moderately cracked, causing board to be slightly loose. However, binding throughout remains firm. A few dog-eared corners. Upper text block edge intensely tanned. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Small fraying split to upper front joint. Spine is slightly sunned. Horizontal strip of sunning to upper rear board. Gilt is bright.