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NORTHANGER ABBEY and PERSUASION

1890réf. 32785New York: Frederick A Stokes Company 1890. A very scarce nineteenth century printing. Small 8vo publisher’s original maroon cloth over floral paper covered boards attractively decorated and lettered in gilt on the covers spine lettered and tooled in gilt t.e.g. 446 pp. A handsome copy well preserved. A VERY SCARCE NINETEENTH CENTURY IMPRINT. FROM THE WORKS OF JANE AUSTEN. NORTHANGER ABBEY was written in 1798 but Austen was unable to find a publisher for it. Finally in 1803 she sold it to a bookseller in Bath for Å10. who tucked it away. Eventually it was sold back to the author for the original price and was not actually published until after her death. NORTHANGER ABBEY was one of Sir Watler Scott’s all time favorite novels and he is said to have read chapters of it at his evening gatherings. Both NORTHANGER ABBEY AND PERSUASION were finally issued in 1818. “PERSUASION was not begun until EMMA was finished and it was completed in August 1816 not many months before Miss Austen died. During its progress indeed her health had been slowly failing. Nevertheless she worked at PERSUASION with little abatement of her creative power.” “Recognition came to Miss Austen slowly. But she is now firmly established as an English classic.Miss Austen had always her panegyrists among the best intellects-such as Coleridge TennysonMacaulay Scott Sydney Smith Disraeli and Archbishop Whitely the last of whom may be said to have been her discoverer. Scott’s testimony is often quoted: ‘That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful I have ever met with. The big bow-wow I can do myself like any one going; but the exquisite touch which renders commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment is denied to me.â€™” - EB Austen’s popularity seems to never weaken and she is as widely loved today as ever. Nineteenth century editions of her works have become quite elusive and are always in demand. Frederick A Stokes Company hardcover

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1857réf. 1309501857. AUSTEN Jane. Novels. New York: Derby & Jackson 1857. Four volumes. 12mo publisher's blind-stamped mauve cloth. $8500.Scarce early American edition of Austen's novels in publisher's cloth each volume with engraved vignette title page.""Generations of readers have marveled at the modernity of her workÉ She is the mother of the English 19th-century novel as Scott is the father of it"" Kunitz & Haycraft 23. ""The fact that Austen wrote comparatively little and that that little is almost always of the highest quality has resulted in the unique distinction which her reputation now enjoys that she is the only author of her period whose works can be read and are read today with delight in their entirety"" Baugh et al. 1206. ""The unconscious charm of the domestic atmosphere of the stories and the delicate subsatirical humor which pervades them have won her the admiration even to fanaticism of innumerable readers"" DNB. Although individual Austen novels had been published in the United States as early as 1816 Emma it was not until 1853 that a multi-volume edition of her works was first issued. Derby & Jackson who published this set as part of their ""Standard Female Novelists"" series incorrectly advertised it as the first American appearance of Austen's complete works; while not the first it is a very early American edition and scarce. Contains Pride and Prejudice bound with Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility bound with Persuasion Mansfield Park and Emma. Gilson E21 E22 E24 E26. Bookplates and inked inscriptions of Mrs. J.S. Wadsworth wife of the Civil War general.Contents generally clean with occasional minor toning or foxing one page of Northanger Abbey with ink offsetting; spines and board edges toned extremities mildly rubbed. In very good condition. Complete sets of this early American edition are scarce particularly in original cloth. hardcover