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Northanger Abbey [Jane Austen]
Jane Austen
Perhaps the first full-length novel written by Jane Austen is Northanger Abbey. The book was written between 1798 and 1799, and the copyright was sold to Benjamin Crosby & Son in 1803. The publisher did not bring it to print, and sold the rights and manuscript back to Austen in 1815. The first edition was published in 1817 by John Murray.
DESCRIPTION
Set in Bunel Text No 2 on cotton Century Laid paper in an edition of 25 copies (this is no 2). Bound by hand in half leather with marbled boards, titles and decoration to spine gilt, marbled edges. Two volumes in 8vo format (16x25 cm) of 248 pages (each), housed in a hand-made slipcase.
Attractively bound by hand.
CONDITION
Brand new copy in a fine binding.
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Synopsis
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. According to Cassandra Austen's Memorandum, Susan (as it was first called) was written about the years 1798-1799. It was revised by Austen for the press in 1803, and sold in the same year for £10 to a London bookseller, Crosby & Co. , who decided against publishing.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Regency Books 1811
(PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15
- Title
- Northanger Abbey
- Author
- Jane Austen
- Format/Binding
- Binding by hand. Marbled page tops.
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Rambler Press
- Place of Publication
- Warsaw
- Pages
- 212
- Size
- 17,5×21,59 mm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Georgian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Jane Austen;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Regency Books 1811
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About the Seller
Regency Books 1811
Biblio member since 2017
Warszawa
About Regency Books 1811
The Rambler Press was founded in the summer of 2013 and was conceived from love for English culture, history, and countryside as well as handmade paper and Caslon type. Our main purpose is to capture the beauty of 18th-century books, the finest period of English typography: bygone historical ligatures, long s, ornaments, what once created an exceptional piece of printing, sometimes called – without any exaggeration – "fine printing".
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- Edges
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- Gilt
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Marbled boards
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fine Binding
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