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, 1946

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third edition, third impression, each volume with facsimile title-page of the original edition, illustrated frontispiece and several further photographic illustrations, 8vo, original green cloth, backstrips lettered in gilt, sage green dustjackets with decorative regency illustration, series and novel title printed in sepia, backstrips also printed in sepia, front flaps of two vols with '8'6' ticket, the remaining 3 clipped, pastedowns with Foyles green tickets, some chipping at backstrip ends and flap folds with occasional slight loss, very 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). Scarce in dustjackets.

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Bibliographic Details

• 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
• Publication Date: 1946
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