8vo. In two volumes. xv, [1], 374, [2]; [4], 366pp, [2]. With half-titles, frontispieces, and a terminal leaf of publisher's advertisements to each volume. Early twentieth-century navy half-morocco, ruled and lettered in gilt, blue cloth boards, T.E.G. A trifle marked, spines lightly sunned. Bookplates of A. Bethune Morgan to FEPs.

The sole edition of the first published selection of any of Jane Austen's correspondence; ninety-four letters written to her elder sister Cassandra; compiled and published by politician and bibliophile Edward Hugessen Knatchbull- Hugessen, Baron Brabourne of Brabourne (1829-1893) who had inherited the original manuscripts from his mother, Fanny Catherine, Austen's niece.