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Bronte (Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell) | First Editions
The Brontës were a nineteenth-century literary family, who grew up in the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. The three sisters, Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848), and Anne (1820–1849), are widely celebrated for their novels and poetry; they produced such iconic works as Jane Eyre, Villette, Wuthering Heights, and Agnes Grey.
Like many female writers of the period, the sisters originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms: Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. Their works were quickly the subject of national scrutiny - of both the positive and the perturbed sort. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success, whilst Emily and Anne's success was largley posthumous. Emily's Wuthering Heights and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall have since been hailed as masterpieces of literature, with praise from writers such as Simone de Beauvoir for unabashedly confronting the complexity of female psyche, and questions of passion and sexuality.
See below our stock of Bronte fine bindings, and sets.
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The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters. Haworth Edition. With Introductions to the Works By Mrs Humphrey Ward, and an Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1905-1910. [Complete Works] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 34cm). With a frontispiece and illustrations to each volume. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin brown labels, further gilt decoration to spine, and matching..... More
The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters. Haworth Edition. With Introductions to the Works By Mrs Humphrey Ward, and an Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter.
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., [and] John Murray, 1905-1926. [Complete Works] LEATHER-BOUND SET, various printings. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 15 x 34cm). With a frontispiece and illustrations to each volume. EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with a hand-written genealogical table and a black and white photograph of "Wuthering Heights" to the..... More
The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte & Her Sisters. Haworth Edition. With Introductions to the Works By Mrs Humphrey Ward, and an Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter.
London: John Murray, 1920. [Complete Works] LEATHER-BOUND SET, a re-issue thus. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 34cm). With a frontispiece and a number of further illustrations to each volume. Recently re-bound in green half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and matching..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. [Prose Works] FINELY BOUND THORNTON EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Finely bound in later cyan half morocco by J. MAY, with raised bands, gilt titles..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. [Prose Works] COMPLETE THORNTON EDITION. 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles and floral decoration to spines. Top edges green, others untrimmed. Contents clean..... More
The Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, Shirley, Villette, The Professor. The Thornton Edition.
Edinburgh: John Grant, 1924. [Prose Works] LEATHER-BOUND THORNTON EDITION. Complete in 12 volumes. Octavo (22 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Recently re-bound in navy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to twin green labels, further..... More
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters: The Haworth Edition.
London: John Murray, 1920. [Classic Literature] VINTAGE EDITION, reissue. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 502. With eight black and white illustrated plates, including a portrait of the author, and a facsimile of the title page to the first edition. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, and a gilt..... More
The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and her Sisters. Comprising: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, Agnes Grey. With Introductions to the Works by Mrs. Humphry Ward and An Introduction and Notes to the Life by Clement K. Shorter.
London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1926. [Classic English literature] FINELY BOUND Haworth Edition. Complete in seven volumes. Octavo (21 x 14 x 19cm). With numerous portraits and illustrations, engraved and photogravures. A superb set in fine near-contemporary red three quarter morocco for Hatchards of Piccadilly (likely bound by Morrell) with..... More
Wuthering Heights.
Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1980. [Gothic Novel] COLLECTOR'S EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[4] xxxii; 331 [3]. With 12 chromolithographic plates by Freedman, including a frontispiece. Publisher's navy full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine and boards, all edges gilt, and pink watered-silk endpapers. A...... More
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