The Novels. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources. [5 Vols.]

Austen (Jane)

Published by At the Clarendon Press -1934, 1932

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third edition, first impressions (Pride and Prejudice states second edition, third impression), each volume with facsimile title-page of the original edition, illustrated frontispiece and several further photographic illustrations, 8vo, original green cloth, upper board with gilt device, backstrip gilt-lettered, grey dustjackets, backstrip and upper & lower panels titled in cerise within decorative border, backstrips toned, faded and chipped at ends with loss to two vols., a few short splits at folds, one vol. with internal marks of sellotape repair, pastedown of one vol. with ownership inscription, good. The highly influential, scholarly edition from the Oxford University Press, first issued in 1923, of Austen's six published novels - Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. Chapman, secretary of the Clarendon Press from 1920, has long been recognized as a key champion of Austen's work in the twentieth century, but it is only in the last twenty years or so that the crucial contribution of his wife, Katherine Marion Metcalfe, has been acknowledged. Prior to Chapman's editions, Metcalfe, an English tutor at Somerville College, had herself edited two OUP issues of Austen novels, and Chapman's archive abounds with copious notes and annotations in her characteristic hand-writing. (J. Barchas, The Lost Books of Austen Studies, English-Language Plenary, Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver. 2015).

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• Title: The Novels. The Text based on Collation of the Early Editions by R.W. Chapman. With Notes Indexes and Illustrations From Contemporary Sources. [5 Vols.]
• Publisher: At the Clarendon Press -1934
• Publication Date: 1932
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