![]() ![]() Mansfield Park represents “a milestone in the English novel” (Wiltshire, p.65). RBH/ABPC record no other copy in the original boards since 1976. ![]() This copy records 18 readers over the course of two years, beginning with Mrs. The sale of the book was on a commission basis, with Austen retaining the copyright. Published in May 1814 in a run of around 1250 copies, the first edition was sold out by November of the same year. Written between February 1811 and June 1813, Mansfield Park was the first of her works to be conceived and wholly written at Chawton. The Jerome Kern copy of the first edition, uncut in original boards and with contemporary circulation notes written on the covers. ![]()
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