Description
Pride and prejudice...3 volumes, 1st edition, contemporary half calf, paper boards, joints and edges, rubbed, some browning and spotting throughout, name of the house from whose library the volumes came is neatly written in a contemporary hand on the titlepages, there are a few small marginal and corner tears, 12mo., London: for T. Egerton, 1813
Note: Gilson A3
Complete with half-titles to all three volumes which Sadleir's, Keynes, the Bodleian and Cambridge University Library all lack. This copy has the faintly printed hyphen betwen "Northumberland" and "street" in the terminal imprint in vol. 2
"Her own darling child" as she referred to it, was Austen's earliest work, begun as First impressions in 1796 at the age of twenty-one, it was to wait until after the publication of Sense and sensibility before seeing the light of day.