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[AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)] Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the author of "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield-Park," &c. With a biographical notice of the author, London: John Murray, 1818 [1817].
4 volumes, 12°, with half titles, contemporary mottled calf by Lubbock of Newcastle with binder's label in vol. I, covers with gilt roll-tool borders (rebacked with spines lettered and decorated in gilt, boards lightly rubbed, some flaking). Provenance: John Waldie (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of both novels. Northanger Abbey was an early novel. According to the author's sister, Cassandra, it was written in the years 1798-1799. Although Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were begun earlier, both were drastically revised before publication. In 1803 Jane Austen sold the novel, then entitled Susan, to Crosby and Company, a London publishers, for £10. When it failed to appear after six years, the author asked Mr. Crosby for information, to be told that he was under no obligation to publish it, and that she could have it back for the amount he had paid her. The offer was not accepted until 1816, when the novelist prepared the manuscript for publication. But, perhaps still uncertain about its prospects, she held it back, and it was only published posthumously with Persuasion in December 1817, prefaced by Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of his sister. The final version of Persuasion had been completed on 6 August, 1816. The two novels were issued in an edition of 1750 copies, and publication was again on a commission basis. Volumes I-II were printed by Roworth, volumes III-IV by Davison in varying specimens of Caslon Pica roman. Gilson A9; Keynes p. 16; Sadleir I, 62e. (4)
4 volumes, 12°, with half titles, contemporary mottled calf by Lubbock of Newcastle with binder's label in vol. I, covers with gilt roll-tool borders (rebacked with spines lettered and decorated in gilt, boards lightly rubbed, some flaking). Provenance: John Waldie (armorial bookplate).
FIRST EDITION of both novels. Northanger Abbey was an early novel. According to the author's sister, Cassandra, it was written in the years 1798-1799. Although Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were begun earlier, both were drastically revised before publication. In 1803 Jane Austen sold the novel, then entitled Susan, to Crosby and Company, a London publishers, for £10. When it failed to appear after six years, the author asked Mr. Crosby for information, to be told that he was under no obligation to publish it, and that she could have it back for the amount he had paid her. The offer was not accepted until 1816, when the novelist prepared the manuscript for publication. But, perhaps still uncertain about its prospects, she held it back, and it was only published posthumously with Persuasion in December 1817, prefaced by Henry Austen's "Biographical Notice" of his sister. The final version of Persuasion had been completed on 6 August, 1816. The two novels were issued in an edition of 1750 copies, and publication was again on a commission basis. Volumes I-II were printed by Roworth, volumes III-IV by Davison in varying specimens of Caslon Pica roman. Gilson A9; Keynes p. 16; Sadleir I, 62e. (4)
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