Page:Austen - Northanger Abbey. Persuasion, vol. I, 1818.djvu/27

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ADVERTISEMENT,

BY THE AUTHORESS,

TO

NORTHANGER ABBEY.




This little work was finished in the year 1803, and intended for immediate publication. It was disposed of to a bookseller, it was even advertised, and why the business proceeded no farther, the author has never been able to learn. That any bookseller should think it worth while to purchase what he did not think it worth while to publish seems extraordinary. But with this, neither the

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