First thus. 184pp. Quarter bound in blue cloth over grey paper-covered boards, blue illustration, decorations and lettering on upper panel, gilt lettering on spine. 12mo. Covers are worn, a little rubbed all round edges, gently rouned at corners and spine ends, boards slightly bowed. Hint of toning on endpapers else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Jane Austen abandoned writing The Watsons. Others have attempted the task of completion; her niece, Catherine Hubback, published a continuation in 1850 and Austen's initial fragment was published by her great-nephew William Austen-Leigh in 1871. This continuation was completed by Catherine Hubback's granddaughter (Jane Austen's great grand-neice) Edith Brown and her husband Francis. This is the first edition of that continuation.
