Price: £11,000
Subject: Literature
Published Date: 1818
Stock Number: 70125
[Austen (Jane)]
Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion.
By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," "Mansfield-Park," &c. With a Biographical Notice of the Author [by Henry Austen]. In Four Volumes. Vol. I [-IV].
Description: FIRST EDITION, half-titles (between the preliminary leaves and first page of text in each volume, as issued), lacking final blanks in vol. IV, sporadic foxing, particularly to the final gathering of vol. I, pp. xxiv, 300; [iv], 331, [i]; [iv], 280; [iv], 308; 12mo, modern tan calf, gilt spines with raised bands and morocco labels, very goodPublication Details: John Murray, 1818
Notes: Northanger Abbey, the first of Austen's novels to be written, but which languished at Crosbie and Co. for 13 years before being bought back in 1816, published posthumously here with her final novel, Persuasion. According to Keynes the number of copies printed of these sets probably exceeded 2000 copies, but from Murray's ledgers Gilson establishes that the print run was 1750, 1409 of which were sold before the end of the year.
Bibliography: (Gilson A9; Keynes 9; Sadleir 62e)
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