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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 Works of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Shirley, Villette, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Professor, and Poems. With illustrations by H.S. Greig and ornaments by F.C. Tilney.
London: J.M. Dent and Company, 1893. [Classic Literature] LEATHER-BOUND SET. Complete in 12 volumes. Small octavo (19 x 12 x 32cm). Each volume with a decorated title page and frontispiece, and two further black and white illustrated plates by Greig and Tilney (three to volume I). Recently re-bound in navy..... 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, 1905. [Prose Works] LEATHER BOUND THORNTON EDITION, first printings thus. 12 volumes. Octavo (21 x 15cm). With a frontispiece illustration to each volume, and numerous black and white photographic plates showing Bronte country. Elegantly bound in navy blue half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles on twin..... More
Jane Eyre.
London: Collins, by arrangement with The Heritage Press, New York, 1955. [Classic Literature] FIRST THUS. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.xx; 429 [3]. With numerous colour lithographs by Freedman. Publisher's red quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine, illustrated paper over boards, top edge black, and illustrated endpapers and fly-leaves. With..... More
Jane Eyre.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND, The Haworth Edition, eighth printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xlvi; 555 [5]. With a frontispiece by G. Richmond, facsimile page of the first edition, black and white water-colour drawing by Frederick Walker, and eight photographic plates taken by Mr. W.R. Bland and Mr..... More
Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey.
London: John Murray, 1929. [Literature] FINELY BOUND, The Haworth Edition, eighth printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4]; lxii; 557 [5]. With a frontispiece, facsimile pages of the first editions of Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, an illustrated plate of Charlotte Bronte's dog (Grasper) by Emily Bronte, and seven photographic plates..... More
Wuthering Heights. and Agnes Grey.
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1858. [Literature] The Third Edition, designated 'New Edition' on the title page. Octavo (18 x 11cm), pp.446; [1], imprint; [1], blank; 4, advertisements. Newly bound in half burgundy calf over marbled sides, original yellow-coated advertising endpapers bound in, original printed cloth covers preserved in a...... More
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