Jane Austen and Lyme Regis
AUSTEN-LEIGH], [Richard Arthur
[Second Impression].
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY OF THE SECOND IMPRESSION
Published: Spottiswoode Ballantyne & Co., 1944
Stock code: 33808
Price: £85.00
Sm. 8vo., Second Impression, with plates, maps in the text and endpaper maps; original blue-grey wrappers, upper wrapper with portrait mounted in oval cartouche, backstrip lettered in black, yapped edges, covers lightly age-faded at edges else a very good, bright, clean copy.
Conceived by Emma Austen-Leigh as a companion to her 'Jane Austen and Bath' and 'Jane Austen and Steventon', this work remained unstarted at her death. It was carried through 'to the best of my ability' by her brother Richard and published in 1941. A third impression appeared in 1946. VERY SCARCE INDEED. Gilson M681.