It's a First Edition of Pride and Prejudice! Visiting Bauman Rare Books Part 3 of 5

This video is about Colleen trying to not drool on a first edition of Pride and Prejudice.

Also, about how the book was created and marketed, foxing, and a lament about how later 19th century wood pulp paper, including in Charles Dickens works, made for very fragile books.

Read more or see these works in Special Collections:

Rebecca's blog post about Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol:
http://www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog/s...

See it in UISpecColl: A Christmas carol : in prose : being a ghost story of Christmas, by Charles Dickens, 1843. PZ5.D47 C5
In the catalog: http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F/?func=fin...

UISpecColl has other Jane Austen works that you can view in the reading room, including:

Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes PR4034 .E5
In the catalog: http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F/?func=fin...

Sense and Sensibility: A Novel In Three Volumes PR4034 .S4
In the catalog: http://infohawk.uiowa.edu/F/?func=fin...




Credits:

A Christmas Carol:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil...

Soundtrack: Scott Joplin piano roll, available at archive.org, https://archive.org/details/ScottJoplin