How quickly did the first edition of Pride and Prejudice sell out?

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Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in period costumes stand outdoors in a scene from the 1995 television series Pride and Prejudice. — Pride and Prejudice Colin Firth as Darcy and Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC TV miniseries *Pride and Prejudice* (1995).

The first edition of Pride and Prejudice, the celebrated novel of manners by Jane Austen, sold out within the first year of its publication in 1813. Since its initial release, the work has remained in print continuously.1