![]() Geoffrey Keynes's Jane Austen: A Bibliography (1,929), the first catalogue of historic editions of Austen's novels, included no mention of the 1816' Philadelphia Emma. What's more, the very existence of this earliest American publication of Austen failed to be remembered. Indeed, the 1816 Philadelphia Emma remained the only American printing of Austen's works until a complete set of her novels was issued in 1832-1833, again in Philadelphia, by the firm of Carey & Lea. publisher to issue further American editions of her novels to compete with expensive imported English editions. Far from inaugurating Austen's transatlantic fame, the reprinted Emma did not inspire any contemporary U.S. This earliest American edition of an Austen novel made little impact in its own time. ![]() CAREY." Known today chiefly to book historians and serious literary collectors, the 1816 Philadelphia Emma was the first Austen novel published in America and the only one printed in the United States during her lifetime (1775-1817). 1816 appears on the title pages of both John Murray's London Emma, which was actually released in late December 1815, and a Philadelphia edition published by "M. ![]() 2016 MARKS THE BICENTENNIAL of not one but two noteworthy first editions of Jane Austen's novel Emma. ![]()
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