AUSTEN, Jane]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Mansfield Park," &c. London: John Murray 1818. 4 volumes, 12 o (191 x 111mm). Half-titles (see below). Original paper-backed boards, printed spine labels, uncut (some chipping to spines, one cover becoming loose, some wear to spine labels); morocco folding case. Provenance : Lady Guilford (signature in vols. 1 and 2); Hannah D. Rabinowitz (bookplates). FIRST EDITION (of both novels) IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. According to the author's sister, Cassandra, Northanger Abbey with its gentle pastiche of the Gothic novel was written in the years 1798-1799. Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were both earlier in origin, but were far more drastically revised before publication. Northanger Abbey therefore represents Jane Austen's style in its earliest public form. In 1803 she had sold the novel, then entitled Susan, to Crosby and Company, a London publisher, for £10. When it failed to appear after six years, she 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 novelist waited until 1816 to accept the offer, but despite preparing the manuscript for publication, she still held it back. As a result, it only appeared posthumously with Persuasion in December 1817, prefaced by Henry Austen's 'Biographical Notice' of his sister. The final version of Persuasion , her last novel, had been completed on 6 August, 1816. The two works were printed in varying specimens of Caslon Pica roman, volumes I-II by Roworth, volumes III-IV by T. Davison, John Murray publishing the edition of 1750 copies on a commission basis. The half-titles in this copy correspond (with one exception) to Gilson: Vol. 1 with half-title for 'Biographical Notice' on A2, Vol. 2 half-title for Northanger Abbey Vol. 2 as A1 (not A2 as in Gilson), Vols. 3-4 half-titles on A2 (for Persuasion Vols. 1 and 2, respectively). Gilson A9; Keynes 9; Sadleir I, 62e. (4)
AUSTEN, Jane]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice" and "Mansfield Park," &c. London: John Murray 1818. 4 volumes, 12 o (191 x 111mm). Half-titles (see below). Original paper-backed boards, printed spine labels, uncut (some chipping to spines, one cover becoming loose, some wear to spine labels); morocco folding case. Provenance : Lady Guilford (signature in vols. 1 and 2); Hannah D. Rabinowitz (bookplates). FIRST EDITION (of both novels) IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. According to the author's sister, Cassandra, Northanger Abbey with its gentle pastiche of the Gothic novel was written in the years 1798-1799. Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice were both earlier in origin, but were far more drastically revised before publication. Northanger Abbey therefore represents Jane Austen's style in its earliest public form. In 1803 she had sold the novel, then entitled Susan, to Crosby and Company, a London publisher, for £10. When it failed to appear after six years, she 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 novelist waited until 1816 to accept the offer, but despite preparing the manuscript for publication, she still held it back. As a result, it only appeared posthumously with Persuasion in December 1817, prefaced by Henry Austen's 'Biographical Notice' of his sister. The final version of Persuasion , her last novel, had been completed on 6 August, 1816. The two works were printed in varying specimens of Caslon Pica roman, volumes I-II by Roworth, volumes III-IV by T. Davison, John Murray publishing the edition of 1750 copies on a commission basis. The half-titles in this copy correspond (with one exception) to Gilson: Vol. 1 with half-title for 'Biographical Notice' on A2, Vol. 2 half-title for Northanger Abbey Vol. 2 as A1 (not A2 as in Gilson), Vols. 3-4 half-titles on A2 (for Persuasion Vols. 1 and 2, respectively). Gilson A9; Keynes 9; Sadleir I, 62e. (4)
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