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Northanger Abbey & Persuasion
by AUSTEN, Jane
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Routledge & Sons, [1877] 1877. Hardcover. VG. 10.5 x 16.4 cm contemporary half leather over marbled boards. Brown label to the spine with gilt stamped titles. All edges speckled red, 288pp. [Gilson E49] A firm binding with rubbing to the spine tips, edges and corners. Internally there is a book plate for William Charles Plenderleath on the front pastedown, a small inscription on the front free endpaper and a blacked out name on the top of the front free endpaper, the black colouring is also visible to a lesser extent on the blank following. There is a little light foxing mainly to the first few and last few pages and a crease on the half title. An unusual edition. Rainford & Parris Books welcomes enquiries, so please do not hesitate to ask if you require further images or have any questions. All books are packaged with great care.
Synopsis
Northanger Abbey was written in 1798, although it was not published until after her death when it was compiled with her final novel, Persuasion. It is notable for being a fierce parody of the late 18th century Gothic style's fainting heroines, 'terror' (giving hints of something fantastic but dreadful, only to quash it later with mundane truth) and haunted medieval buildings. Austen targets with particular venom Ann Radcliffe's extremely popular The Mysteries of Udolpho and has her characters reading and mimicking it whilst the author undermines it at every opportunity. Austen's comparatively thin novel as good as destroyed Radcliffe's reputation for almost two centuries and the exciting gothic writ large of Udolpho is only now being reassessed. Northanger Abbey itself concerns a typical Austen heroine, the young Catherine Morland who is taken to the fashionable resort of Bath with her friends the Allens. From there she travels to the eponymous medieval abbey, the seat of the Tilneys. As an impressionable girl, Catherine becomes obsessed with the possible atrocities going on at Northanger Abbey, inspired by Radcliffe's novel. As ever, Austen cannot resist injecting a little romance into proceedings and she puts Captain Tilney under the spell of the unpleasant, scheming Isabella Thorpe. The novel's central theme, common to Emma and Sense and Sensibility is the peril of confusing life and art: in this instance literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 202263
- Title
- Northanger Abbey & Persuasion
- Author
- AUSTEN, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons
- Date Published
- [1877] 1877
- Keywords
- Women|Romance|Jane Austen
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Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
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About the Seller
Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Biblio member since 2020
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
About Rainford and Parris Books - PBFA
Rainford & Parris Books is a small family business based on the Hertfordshire / Essex border, close to London Stansted Airport. We are full time professional bookdealers specialising mainly in Modern First Editions, Children's Books, Illustrated Books and Nineteenth Century Literature, as well as assorted fine and interesting books. When describing our books we attempt to list all significant defects to a high degree of precision, so that you can build an accurate idea of their condition. We supplement our description with images and are always happy to provide further images or information. All books are very carefully packaged in a new book-box so that they reach you in the condition described.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Marbled boards
- ...
- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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