Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion

The Murray London set (titles dated 1818, issued December 1817) is the true first for BOTH novels; neither was published separately in Austen's lifetime and no earlier printing of either text exists. Murray had bought back the manuscript of Northanger Abbey, written years earlier as "Susan" and long suppressed. The census claim is confirmed. Later editions of Northanger Abbey alone or Persuasion alone, however early they look, are reprints — the first appearance of both texts is inside this four-volume unit.