A Memoir of Jane Austen by her Nephew.
AUSTEN-LEIGH, James Edward
Second 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, 1871
Stock code: 49773
Price: £980.00
8vo., Second Edition, with full-page facsimileon laid paper; 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 this second edition the portrait was initially omitted, despite a textual reference to it (p.83); subsequent enquiries led to its inclusion in later printings. EXTREMELY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Gilson M130.