15717-1 Jane Austen Books Signature Tees character and caricature

character and caricature

Art Type Edition

This copy is almost like new and has cloth covers with separate jacket

One of a kind

The authors researched pockets that survive in museums as well as diaries

15717-1 Jane Austen Books Signature Tees character and caricatureAt pennies a copy, Austen's novels were some of the earliest mass marketed paperbacks. In the 19th century they were targeted to Britain's working class and were sold at train stations, traded for soap wrappers, and given as school prizes. This is the story of those paperbacks and other republications of Austen's novels told lovingly by a serious, scholarly collector who is an expert on book publishing as well as on Austen. Barchas shares the fun of