Northanger Abbey and Persuasion

Lot 102
16.10.2025 10:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
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ID 1472025
Lot 102 | Northanger Abbey and Persuasion
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$ 20 000 – 30 000
[AUSTEN, Jane (1775-1817)]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. London: John Murray, 1818.

First editions of both novels, the Teddesley Hall copies. Published the year after the author’s death in a run of 1750 copies, this first edition combines Northanger Abbey, the first of Austen’s novels to be completed for publication, with Persuasion, the very last of her completed works. According to the author's sister, Cassandra, Northanger Abbey was written in the years 1798-1799, although it has been suggested "a first version may have been written as early as 1794" (Gilson, p. 82). In 1803, Austen sold the manuscript, then entitled Susan, to the London publisher Richard Crosby and Son., for £10. When it failed to appear after six years, she asked Mr Crosby for information, only to be told that he was under no obligation to publish it and that she could have it back for the amount he had paid her. The novelist waited until 1816 to accept the offer, but despite preparing the manuscript for publication once more, and changing the title from Susan to Catherine, still held it back. As a result, it only appeared posthumously with Persuasion in December 1817, the eventual title apparently supplied by her brother Henry Austen, who prefaced the text with a "Biographical Notice" of his sister. Persuasion was begun on 8 August 1815 and completed a year later.

This copy bears the name "Teddesley" on its covers. Teddesley Hall was a large Georgian country home built in the 1750s in Staffordshire for Sir Edward Littleton, 4th Baronet, according to designs by Charles Cope Trubshaw of Little Haywood. After Littleton's death in 1812, the estate passed to his grand-nephew Edward John Walhouse (1791-1863), who took the name Littleton and became 1st Baron Hatherton in 1835. His descendants eventually moved to Hatherton Hall. During World War II, the vacant Teddesley Hall was requisitioned for troops and Prisoners of War, after which it remained empty until its demolition in 1954. Gilson A9.

Four volumes, 12mo (177 x 100mm). Half-titles. (Minor intermittent spotting, vol. 2 title with two small tears not affecting text, vol. 4 without blank p8.) Contemporary half green morocco gilt over grey-blue paper-covered boards, ribbon markers (spines a little faded, minor soiling and rubbing to extremities). Provenance: Teddesley Hall (supralibros).
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