Jane Austen's The History of England
by Austen, Jane
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1565120558
- ISBN 13
- 9781565120556
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1993. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Cassandra Austen. From the Reign of Henry the 4th to the Death of Charles the 1st, by a partial, prejudiced, & ignorant historian. 2nd printing, 8vo, blue boards, xii, 34, transcript pages, illustrated with color facsimiles. Introduction by A.S. Byatt. A Note on the text by Deirdre Le Faye. A complete facsimile of the original hand-written text, with watercolor illustrations by her sister Cassandra, followed by a transcript of the text. Condition: NEAR FINE book / NEAR FINE jacket. Austen's brilliant parody of Oliver Goldsmith's 4-volume "History of England."
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17960
- Title
- Jane Austen's The History of England
- Author
- Austen, Jane
- Illustrator
- Cassandra Austen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1565120558
- ISBN 13
- 9781565120556
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books
- Place of Publication
- Chapel Hill, NC
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- GREAT BRITAIN, HISTORY, JANE AUSTEN, JUVENILIA, HUMOR
- Bookseller catalogs
- Great Britain; History / Geography;
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