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Austen (Jane) Emma: A Novel, 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles (that in vol.1 at end), foxing and some staining, ownership inscription of Dowager Lady Vernon, dated 1816 at head of each title (trimmed), contemporary half calf, vol.1 and 3 rebacked preserving original gilt spines, vol.2 spine cracked and chipped at head, preserved in modern morocco-backed cloth drop-back box, [Gilson A8], 12mo, 1816. ⁂ An interesting association copy. Lady Vernon is cited in Gilson's bibliography p.49 under the Mansfield Park note vii Contemporary comments: "Georgiana, Dowager Lady Vernon wrote to Mrs. Phyllis Frampton, apparently between 15 and 20 June 1814: 'I now recommend you 'Mansfield Park' if you meet with it. It is not much of a novel, more the history of a family party in the country, very natural, and the characters well drawn' (The journal of Mary Frampton, edited by Harriot Georgiana Munday, London, Sampson Low, 1885, 226; Lady Vernon's copy of MP is now at Pennsylvania State University - she also owned a first edition of E, now in the Newberry Library, Chicago)." This is that copy, with the bookplate of The Newberry Library in each volume and a pencil note on each bookplate reading "Duplicate. Withdrawn from The Newberry Library 8-24-93 AJL" Coincidentally, Lady Susan, the eponymous character of Jane Austen's shortest and least known novel (written in 1794 when Austen was 18, but not published until 1875), is in fact Lady Susan Vernon.