15717-1 Jane Austen Books Signature Tees character and caricature

character and caricature

Red slipcase

Art Type Edition

The Female Quixote and other Quixotic Imitations of the Eighteenth Century

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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