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AUSTEN [Jane]
Pride and Prejudice 1st Edition
Auction: 8 July 2003 at 12:00 BST
Description
3 volumes, without half-titles, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, fore-edges uncut, outer joints weak, spines and corners rubbed, some light browning and spotting throughout, small tear at inner margins of pp. 83-85 in vol. 1, marginal tears in . p. 311 of vol. 3, 12mo., London: Egerton, 1813 [3]
Note: Gilson A3 This copy has the faintly printed hyphen between "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 sensibilitybefore seeing the light of day. Pride and prejudice remains one of the nation's favourite works of literature, topping the list in a recent poll, and with Mr Darcy, the brooding hero, emerging, with or without a body-hugging wet shirt (as played by Colin Firth), as the ideal date for a fantasy dinner party to mark last month's Orange Prize for Fiction.