Sombre Binding.- Apocrypha, contemporary black morocco sombre binding elaborately tooled in blind, n.p., [1680s].

Sombre Binding belonging to Jane Austen's great-great aunt.- Apocrypha, ruled in red, lightly soiled, contemporary ink inscription "Emma Brydges her Booke August ye 20th 1687 in Constantinople" on front free endpaper, with several other ink inscriptions of the Leech family up to 1719 on front and rear endpapers, endpapers a little water-stained, contemporary black morocco sombre binding elaborately tooled in blind with cottage roof design against a hatched background of narrow rules and decorated with tulips, rosettes, circles and dots, spine in panels tooled with rosettes and five raised bands, black edges, a little rubbed at edges, corners slightly bumped, 8vo, n.p., [1680s].

⁂ Emma Chamberlayne, neé Brydges (1669-1738) was the daughter of James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, who was elected by the Levant Company as Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople from 1681-87. She was the older sister of James Brydges, the 1st Duke of Chandos, and younger sister of Mary Brydges, the great-grandmother of Jane Austen.