Antique appraisal seekers may be interested in Pride and Prejudice sale
The original copy went for just under £140,000, antique appraisal seekers might be interested to note.
Those looking for accurate antique appraisals might be keen to note that an original copy of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice has sold for £139,250 at auction.
The 1813 novel - which originally cost 18 shillings, around 90 pence in today's money - went under the hammer at Sotheby's in London, the Daily Mail reports.
It tells the story of heroine Elizabeth Bennet - played by English actress and star of King Arthur Keira Knightley - falling for Mr Darcy.
Other first editions - sold by an anonymous 75-year-old collector - to go under the hammer at the sale included a version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, which fetched £181,250.
Peter Selley of the auctioneers said the pensioner had built up an "extraordinary library", adding: "The quality drew bids from around the world."
This comes after a World War I diary and sketchbook sold for £9,600 at auction in September, the BBC reported.
Posted by Keith Leicester