‘There’s an aura about it’: 210-year-old first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma on display in Melbourne

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The major acquisition is part of an initiative to redress the gender imbalance in the State Library of Victoria’s rare books collection Last year, when Janeites around the world marked the English author’s 250th birthday, the State Library of Victoria (SLV) made a major acquisition: three leather-bound volumes of a first edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, bought from antiquarian booksellers Maggs Bros at Melbourne’s Rare Book Fair. Newsiline summarises this report from The Guardian Australia and links readers to the original publisher for the full story.

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