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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 and decoration to spines, and grey cloth over boards. Top edges gilt. Gently toned throughout, as usual, with a light tobacco scent, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Bindings sunned to spines, otherwise only lightly handled. Very good. The Thornton Edition of the Novels of the Bronte Sisters, first printed in 1905, is considered the definitive complete works, and includes Elizabeth Gaskell's 'Life of Charlotte Bronte'. This set is simply dated 1924 (no reprint history is shown). Item #70194
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