Volume the Third
AUSTEN, Jane
Now first printed from the Manuscript. [Preface by R W Chapman].
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1951
Stock code: 5909
Price: £35.00
Sm. 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, some mild offsetting to free endpapers; original boards, cloth back, paper label (with spare label as issued), uncut and partially unopened, backstrip lightly browned else a very good, clean copy.
With spare paper label tipped-in at end. Contains 'Evelyn' and 'Kitty, or the Bower'. Of Austen's three volumes of juvenilia, 'Volume the Second' was published as 'Love and Freindship [sic]' in 1922, and 'Volume the First' by Oxford in 1933. The present volume, printed from the MS held by R A Austen-Leigh, completes the series. Chapman 25; Gilson, F14