Emma:. A Novel in Three Volumes. London: John Murray, 1816.
First edition.
Three twelvemo volumes. [iv], [1]- 322; [ii], [1]- [352, printer’s imprint]; [ii], [1]-363, [1, publisher’s ads] pp., without the half-titles. Bound in contemporary full tan calf, re-backed and re-cornered to style at a later date, with later burgundy and black gilt morocco lettering labels; newer end-papers. Light wear to boards, some mild intermittent foxing. Still, a near fine copy of this scarce work. Housed in a slipcase.
First edition of Austen’s last novel. Jane Austen began to write Emma in January of 1814 and finished it a little over a year later, in March of 1815. At the time of completion, Austen was thirty-nine years old. Emma was published at the end of 1815, with 2,000 copies printed. She earned less than forty pounds from the book during her lifetime, though it earned more after her death. Austen died a year and a half after publication. (The Cambridge Companion To Jane Austen, Edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster, Cambridge University Press, 1997.)
“Emma seems the most English of English novels and beyond question one of the very best. More than Pride and Prejudice, it is Austen’s masterpiece, the largest triumph of her vigorous art.†--Harold Bloom
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