The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen : Mansfield Park
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Large octavo, cloth boards with facsimile signature stamped in gilt, dustjacket, b&w frontis, b&w facsimile title pages, pp lxxxvi, 738. A small previous owner's inscription removed, sticker to rear paste-down, some light wrinking along upper title-page, otherwise, very near fine in like d.j. Very clean.
"Mansfield Park" was published in two editions in her lifetime and here the 1814 and 1816 texts are fully collated for the first time, allowing the reader to see the differences between the first edition and the second. Also included, with a brief note on Elizabeth Inchbald, is the text of "Lover's Vows", the play around which much of the plot of "Mansfield Park" revolves. The volume provides comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the work, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative textual apparatus. This edition is an indispensable resource for all scholars and readers of Austen. Item #104620
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