[Austen (Jane)] Emma: A Novel... By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice" &c. &c. , 3 vol., first edition, lacking half-titles (that in vol.1 at end), B10 with paper flaw causing hole with without significant loss to letters, occasional light browning or soiling, some light corner creasing, ink ownership of Walter Campbell dated 1816 to titles, bookplate of Campbell family to pastedowns, contemporary half calf, some cracking to joints, vol. 1 spine repaired at head, vol. 2 upper joint repaired, vol. 3 with chip to head of spine, [Gilson A8], 12mo, Printed for John Murray, 1816.

⁂ Austen's fourth novel, published in an edition of 2000 copies. Thomas Moore wrote to Samuel Rogers in June 1816: "Let me entreat you to read 'Emma' - it is the very perfection of novel-writing - and I cannot praise it more highly than by saying it is often extremely like your own method of describing things - so much effect, with so little effort!".