![]() ![]() Gilson’s description of them in A Bibliography of Jane Austen: “spines decayed and broken, pages much worn and decayed throughout, parts of many pages missing.” The title page, dedication, and first several pages of volume one are all in tatters. ![]() These volumes’ level of disintegration is well conveyed by David J. To recover the missing history of Austen’s earliest American readers, however, there is no better way than to pursue the traces they left in the books they read.įor comments on the experience of reading Emma, we must look to the most astonishing survivor among the six remaining copies of the 1816 Philadelphia edition: the one now held by the New York Society Library, a private membership library founded in 1754. ![]() As a humble, unremarkable American reprint, the 1816 Philadelphia Emma is an unusual candidate for such an exploration. Biographies of books are typically created for publications of great historical importance: Copernicus’ De revolutionibus, for example, or Shakespeare’s First Folio. ![]()
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