THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL BY ANNE BRONTE [ACTON BELL] 1854 THIRD EDITION

[BRONTE (Anne, "Acton Bell")]. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. London: Thomas Hodgson, 1854.

Third edition. Leather-bound. Hardcover. Small octavo (175 x 105 mm.), pp. 371. Attractive binding of contemporary half leather, signed 'A. C. O.' in gilt to front turn-in. Smooth spine with gilt banding and red morocco lettering-piece with gilt titles. Red speckled page edges. Marbled endpapers. Framed title-page. Printed by Woodfall and Kinder. Condition: NEAR FINE. Binding tight and secure, covers immaculate. Contents with very occasional light spotting, else fine and without previous ownership markings. Scarce.

Notes: Third edition in one volume by Thomas Hodgson, who bought the rights to the novel from original publisher T. C. Newby 1854, the first edition issued in three volumes in 1848.