Memoir of Jane Austen, James Edward Austen-Leigh, Notes by R.W. Chapman, Oxford, 1926

Memoir of Jane Austen, by her Nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh. With Introduction, Notes, & Index by R.W. Chapman.

Provenance; from the library of the late William St Clair (1937 - 2021), British historian, academic and author. His signature and date to first free endpaper. Also contains a a vintage postcard (unused) of Jane Austen's Grave. Please see our other listings for related works.

Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926. A first edition, thus, of this particular book, which is primarily a reprint of the Second edition of the Memoir published by Richard Bentley and Son, London, 1871. 

A good hardback with paper over boards and linen spine with printed title label. Some splitting to linen of about 3cm at the lower rear part of spine. Covers rubbed and lightly soiled with darkened spine.

Text bright, clean, and soundly bound. 

xvi + [8pp] + 235pp.

Weight approximately 313g unpacked.

Dimensions: Approximately 184mm high x 130mm wide x 22mm deep.