Accession number
PML 130123
Creator
Austen-Leigh, James Edward, 1798-1874.
Published
London : Richard Bentley and Son ..., 1871.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Series information in Gilson.
First edition of Lady Susan, p. [203]-291, and The Watsons, p. [297]-364, with half-titles for each.
Gilson notes (F5, re. 1925 ed.) that 1871 edition of Lady Susan was printed from inaccurate manuscript.
Morgan Library owns autograph manuscript of Lady Susan (MA 1226), and part of the autograph manuscript of The Watsons (MA 1034).
Memoir, chapter 12, is first publication of cancelled chapter 10 of Persuasion; chapter 13 is Austen-Leigh's description of Sanditon.
"Printed by Spottiswoode and Co."--Colophon.
First edition of Lady Susan, p. [203]-291, and The Watsons, p. [297]-364, with half-titles for each.
Gilson notes (F5, re. 1925 ed.) that 1871 edition of Lady Susan was printed from inaccurate manuscript.
Morgan Library owns autograph manuscript of Lady Susan (MA 1226), and part of the autograph manuscript of The Watsons (MA 1034).
Memoir, chapter 12, is first publication of cancelled chapter 10 of Persuasion; chapter 13 is Austen-Leigh's description of Sanditon.
"Printed by Spottiswoode and Co."--Colophon.
Description
x, 364 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (facsimile) ; 20 cm.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's green cloth (dot-and-line pattern, Gaskell fig. 88), blind-tooled, spine gold-tooled, by Edmonds & Remnants.
Classification
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