Pride and Prejudice typesetting

[Martin]

I wanted to copy P&P in a book I'm doing. Fortunately (or not?) I got a copy of Longbourn and it did not match my P&P. Any of you scholars know if I should finish the novel (mine's a trilogy publishing in separate volumes) with:

FINIS or Finis?

And what finishes volumes 1 and 2?

Are the original first and second editions online?

Thanks!

[Abigail]

“Finis” should be initial capital letter followed by small caps.

I have both the old R. W. Chapman editions of the novels (Oxford University Press) and the current Harvard University Press/Belknap editions, all of them based on either the first or the second, corrected, printings. The Chapman editions have things like “end of vol. II” (in all small caps, no initial cap, but I don’t know how to reproduce small caps here), but the Belknap ones don’t give any indication of the end of the volume. Each volume, however, has its own full title page.

One other thing you can do to make yours visually like the original is to have the little leader words at the bottom of each page of running text. (I don’t know the correct term for this.) What I mean is, just below the last full line of text on each page, there’s a single word, positioned flush right. So if the first word on the next page is “since,” the word since would appear in that position on the page you’re reading. This was done to help people reading aloud not have a break in the middle of a sentence while they turned the page.

Hope some of this is helpful!