LIFE & WORKS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE & HER SISTERS FINELY BOUND IN SEVEN VOLUMES BY TRUSLOVE & HANSON

LIFE & WORKS OF CHARLOTTE BRONTE & HER SISTERS FINELY BOUND IN SEVEN VOLUMES BY TRUSLOVE & HANSON

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[BRONTE - Charlotte, Emily and Anne]. The Life and Works of Charlotte Bronte and Her Sisters. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1898-1902.

New editions, complete in seven volumes, leather-bound, hardcovers, octavos (18cm x 12cm). English text; bound in stunning contemporary half vellum by Truslove and Hanson; smooth spines gilt ruled and tooled with morocco lettering-pieces; cloth sides; top edges gilt, fore edges unevenly cut; marbled endpapers; title-page vignette. Printed by Spottiswoode and Co. The 7 volumes comprise: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, The Professor and Poems, Wuthering Heights and Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, and The Life by Mrs. Gaskell. Condition: NEAR FINE. Minor marks to a couple of boards and endpapers, otherwise this is an impressively tight and clean set, without previous ownership markings. Scarce thus.