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Jane Austen First edition of Pride and Prejudice —Austen's masterpiece
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Jane Austen First edition of Pride and Prejudice —Austen's masterpiece
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[Jane Austen]
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel.London: printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, 1813
3 volumes, 12mo (173 x 105 mm). Half-titles; some spotting and browning, repair to final hinge of volume I resulting in short closed tear to lower gutter of final two leaves, a few closed marginal tears and repairs, small hole or paper flaw to p. 188 affecting four letters in volume II, closed tear halfway across p. 233 in volume II. Half-calf over marbled boards; minor restoration to spines, corners bumped. Red cloth clamshell box.
First edition of Jane Austen's masterpiece.
Austen beganFirst Impressionsin 1796–97, but the manuscript was rejected by Thomas Cadell in 1797. Following the success ofSense and Sensibility(1811), she returned to the work, and in 1810 Egerton agreed to publish 1,500 copies at 18 shillings apiece. The title was revised toPride and Prejudice, its phrasing borrowed from Frances Burney’sCecilia(1782). Burney, a favorite novelist of Austen’s, wrote: “If to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination.” At the time of publication, Austen wrote excitedly to her sister, "I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London...The Advertisement is in our paper to day for the first time...".
This “novel of manners” was met with immediate acclaim, including theBritish Critic’sverdict that it was “far superior to almost all the publications of the kind which have lately come before us.” (Romney 26). Austen’s fiction drew on the precedent set by contemporary women novelists—among them Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Maria Edgeworth (see lot 8)—while establishing her own sharp, ironic style.
Within the novel itself, Austen slyly defends the form: the pompous Mr. Collins, one of her most graceless creations, boasts that he “never reads novels.” She defends her own writing as well as her favorite authors’ by attributing the dislike to tastelessness and Collins’s presumptuousness regarding women (Tomalin 163).
With its wit, acute rendering of Regency society, and insight into human character,Pride and Prejudicestands as Austen’s masterpiece, and a lasting monument to nineteenth-century women’s literature.
Oft-cited as the most-loved book of all time, it has inspired countless adaptations and has sold over 20 million copies.
REFERENCE:
Gilson A3; Keynes 3; Sadleir 62b; Tinker 204; Grolier English 138
PROVENANCE:
Sir Harry Newton (bookplate to pastedowns with small book labels)
Pride and Prejudice: A Novel.London: printed by C. Roworth for T. Egerton, 1813
3 volumes, 12mo (173 x 105 mm). Half-titles; some spotting and browning, repair to final hinge of volume I resulting in short closed tear to lower gutter of final two leaves, a few closed marginal tears and repairs, small hole or paper flaw to p. 188 affecting four letters in volume II, closed tear halfway across p. 233 in volume II. Half-calf over marbled boards; minor restoration to spines, corners bumped. Red cloth clamshell box.
First edition of Jane Austen's masterpiece.
Austen beganFirst Impressionsin 1796–97, but the manuscript was rejected by Thomas Cadell in 1797. Following the success ofSense and Sensibility(1811), she returned to the work, and in 1810 Egerton agreed to publish 1,500 copies at 18 shillings apiece. The title was revised toPride and Prejudice, its phrasing borrowed from Frances Burney’sCecilia(1782). Burney, a favorite novelist of Austen’s, wrote: “If to pride and prejudice you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to pride and prejudice you will also owe their termination.” At the time of publication, Austen wrote excitedly to her sister, "I want to tell you that I have got my own darling Child from London...The Advertisement is in our paper to day for the first time...".
This “novel of manners” was met with immediate acclaim, including theBritish Critic’sverdict that it was “far superior to almost all the publications of the kind which have lately come before us.” (Romney 26). Austen’s fiction drew on the precedent set by contemporary women novelists—among them Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Maria Edgeworth (see lot 8)—while establishing her own sharp, ironic style.
Within the novel itself, Austen slyly defends the form: the pompous Mr. Collins, one of her most graceless creations, boasts that he “never reads novels.” She defends her own writing as well as her favorite authors’ by attributing the dislike to tastelessness and Collins’s presumptuousness regarding women (Tomalin 163).
With its wit, acute rendering of Regency society, and insight into human character,Pride and Prejudicestands as Austen’s masterpiece, and a lasting monument to nineteenth-century women’s literature.
Oft-cited as the most-loved book of all time, it has inspired countless adaptations and has sold over 20 million copies.
REFERENCE:
Gilson A3; Keynes 3; Sadleir 62b; Tinker 204; Grolier English 138
PROVENANCE:
Sir Harry Newton (bookplate to pastedowns with small book labels)