A Memoir of Jane Austen by her Nephew.
AUSTEN-LEIGH, James Edward
Third Edition, to which is added Lady Susan, and Fragments of Two other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen.
FIRST APPEARANCE OF LADY SUSAN & THE WATSONS
Published: Richard Bentley, 1872
Stock code: 51030
Price: £640.00
8vo., Third Edition, with full-page facsimile on laid paper, with a relevant cutting mounted on front free endpaper verso, neat contemporary signature on blank preliminary recto, frontispiece and title lightly spotted; original green cloth, boards elaborately framed and blocked in blind, gilt back, chocolate endpapers, uncut, expertly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy.
FIRST PUBLICATION OF 'LADY SUSAN', 'THE WATSONS', THE CANCELLED CHAPTER OF 'PERSUASION', AND EXTRACTS FROM 'SANDITON'. AN EARLY PRINTING WITHOUT THE PORTRAIT. The 'Memoir' was first issued in 1870 without the aforementioned inclusions, but with a portrait of JA as frontispiece. In the second edition (1971) the portrait was initially omitted, despite a textual reference to it (p.83); subsequent enquiries led to its inclusion in later printings. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Gilson M130.