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A memoir of Jane Austen, / by her nephew J. E. Austen Leigh ; to which is added Lady Susan and fragments of two other unfinished tales by Miss Austen.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1872 Austen-Leigh
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Austen-Leigh, James Edward, 1798-1874.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817.
- Austen, Jane.
- Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.
- Novelists, English.
- Genre:
- Bookplates (Provenance).
- Embossed stamps (Provenance).
- Physical Description:
- vi, [1], 364 p., [1] leaf of plates : port. 19 cm.
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Lady Susan &c.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Richard Bentley and Son, New Burlington Street publishers in ordinary to Her Majesty, 1872.
- Contents:
- A memoir of Jane Austen. - Lady Susan. - The Watsons.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "London: printed by Spottiswoode and Co. New-Street Square and Parliament Street."--t.p. verso.
- Spine title: Lady Susan &c.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift of: Evan H. Turner (2006), from the collection of Albert Morton Turner (1890-1976).
- Athenaeum copy with bookplate of Madeline Jones depicting pirate on galleon holding a pistol and brandishing a rapier with the sea and another galleon in background; bookplate signed: Jack B. Yeats; also with newspaper clipping relating to the portrait of Jane Austen, affixed on verso of her frontispiece portrait; bound in original publisher's blind stamped green cloth; embossed stamp on free-endpaper: Simms, George Street, Bath.
- Contains:
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Lady Susan.
- Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Watsons.
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