Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record

PHOTOS
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PUBLISHER
Smith, Elder & Co. London.

BINDING
Red cloth boards with gilt lettering.

BOOK CONDITION
Boards are generally worn at edges, corners bumped. Fading especially to spine. A few stain marks. Hinges a little weak but binding secure. Some browning and foxing mainly affecting outer leaves and frontispiece portrait. Printed pages are mostly lightly marked. Tissue guard to frontispiece is intact. Fold out family trees have some creasing and a few tears at the edge of one, but remain mostly clear and little marked. Small stamp "Presentation Copy" at top of title page / tissue guard.

DUST JACKET
No.

EDITION
First edition, presentation copy, 1913.

DESCRIPTION
A scarce copy of this title, written by descendants of Jane Austen's eldest brother. Includes a detailed biography, a chapter on each of her published works, and transcripts of many letters. Two fold out family trees at the end of the volume. Jane Austen's surviving letters are the subject of a recent BBC drama (2025) 428 pp. Octavo