Two Chapters of Persuasion
AUSTEN, Jane
Printed from Jane Austen's Autograph. [Edited with a Preface and Notes by R.W. Chapman].
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1926
Stock code: 16875
Price: £60.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with two pages of facsimile toned in sepia, half-title mildly browned; original blue-grey boards, ivory cloth back, backstrip with printed paper label (worn but legible), uncut, a very good, clean copy.
With spare paper label at rear. Contains chapters 10 and 11 as first written. Two new chapters were afterwards written in place of chapter 10, and chapter 11 became chapter 12. This fragment [now in the BL] s the only surviving portion of the author's MSS of the novels. Chapman 29(1926); Gilson F8; Keynes 178.