1922 Love and Friendship and Other Early Works Now First Printed from the Original MS.
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition.
No. 56 of 260 printed by Chatto and Windus in 1922.
Love and Friendship is one of Austen lesser lesser-known works. It is a juvenile story dating back to 1790. From the age of 11 to 18 Austen wrote her tales in three notebooks which are now kept at the Bodleian Library and British Museum. They contain many of her works including Love and Friendship which she wrote at the age of 14 and The History of England written at the age of 15.
Love and Friendship was written in an epistolary form and is thought to be like Lady Susan one of the tales that she wrote for the amusement of her family.
With a preface by G. K. Chesterton.
This copy includes charming endpapers with miniature colour portraits of her family.
This copy includes a frontispiece showing an extract of The History of England in Austen's hand.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth. Externally very smart. Fading to the spine and boards. Two small ink stains on the spine. Internally firmly bound. Offsetting to the front and rear free endpapers. The pages are bright and clean. Pages roughly cut.
Very Good
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