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NOTE ON THE TEXT

Pride and Prejudice was written (as First Impressions) between Octo-
ber 1796 and August 1797, and offered by Jane Austen's father to the
publisher Cadell on 1 November 1797 as 'a manuscript novel, com-
prising 3 vols., about the length of Miss Burney's Evelina.... I shall
be much obliged... if you will inform me whether you choose to be
concerned in it, what will be the expense of publishing it at the
author's risk, and what you will venture to advance for the property
of it, if on perusal it is approved of.' Cadell was not interested; and
the book, 'lop't and crop't' and otherwise revised, eventually went to
Thomas Egerton of the Military Library in Whitehall for £110 ( Jane
Austen had asked £150). The first printing of c. 1,500 copies (18s. in
boards) in January 1813 sold out, and a second edition--without
apparent revision by the author--appeared in November. The third
edition was published by John Murray in 1817, and also has no
authority (although it became the basis of many nineteenth-century
reprints).

The present text is substantially that of R. W. Chapman's edition
( Oxford, 1923; revised by Mary Lascelles, 1965), based on the first
edition collated with the second and third. Chapman's textual
apparatus has been revised and his emendations reconsidered.
J.K.

-xxvii-

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Publication Information: Book Title: Pride and Prejudice. Contributors: Jane Austen - author, James Kinsley - editor. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1980. Page Number: xxvii.
    
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