Jane Austen's Letters To Her Sister Cassandra And Others Volume I 1796-1809 And Volume Ii 1811-1817 Jane Austen; R W Chapman (Ed.) Biography & True Stories

1932. No Edition Remarks. 509 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Comprises two volumes in one edition. Edited & collected by R. W. Chapman. Contains black and white illustrations & photographs, including frontispiece. On India paper. Five tipped-in folding maps and folding facsimile of a letter. Various indexes. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Heavier tanning and foxing to pastedowns and inserts. Hinges are cracked with exposed netting. Binding is weakened but remains secure. Pen & pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper with previous owner's stamp. Minor dog-eared corners and creasing to some pages. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Minor fraying to cloth at spine ends. Faint ring mark to front board. Signs of some faint water staining to boards. Gilt lettering is slightly dulled. Boards slightly bowed.