Volume the First
AUSTEN, Jane
Now first printed from the Manuscript in the Bodleian Library. [Preface by R W Chapman].
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1933
Stock code: 17229
Price: £40.00
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus; original boards, cloth back, paper label (a little browned), uncut, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy.
With spare paper label tipped-in at rear. Contains 'Frederic & Elfrida', 'Jack & Alice', Edgar & Emma', 'Henry & Eliza', 'Mr. Harley', 'Sir William Montague', 'Mr. Clifford', 'The beautifull Cassandra', 'Amelia Webster', 'The Visit', 'The Mystery', 'The three Sisters', 'Detached Pieces', 'Ode to Pity'. The first trade printing of the first volume of Austen's three volumes of juvenilia. A limited edition of 100 copies was issued in 1932. Chapman 24 (recording the limited edition of the previous year); Gilson, F12.