9 07AUSTEN, Jane. Sense and Sensibility: A Novel. Philadelphia, 1833. Two volumes bound in one. 12mo, period-style full red morocco gilt. $18,000 “Relatively Few Copies Of The 1832-33 Philadelphia Editions Are Known To Survive” First American edition—an edition of only 1250 copies—of Jane Austen’s first novel, on “the twin themes of prudence and benevolence, reason and passion, head and heart, or sense and sensibility,” sumptuously bound. Only Emma (1816) was published in the United States in Austen’s lifetime. “The first English editions of Austen’s novels may be supposed to have been available in the United States at an early date… Chief Justice John Marshall in a letter of 1826 mentioned that he had just finished reading Austen’s novels… It has been shown too that James Fenimore Cooper’s first novel Precaution was an imitation of Persuasion (of which no American edition was published before 1832). No other American edition is known before the issue of all six titles, each in two volumes, by Carey & Lea of Philadelphia in 1832-33... Relatively few copies of the 1832-33 Philadelphia editions are known to survive” (Gilson, 97-98). Bound without publisher’s ads. Gilson B6. Keynes 14. Some light foxing to text; title page of Volume I toned. Beautifully bound.
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