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1922013030London: Dent 1922 green cloth lightly rubbed to joints and spine ends spine gilding dulled a few minor spots to endpapers closed top edge dust soiled with a few spots that intrude to extreme top margin of some plates frontis 11 plates in colour total of 12 as called for ix 548pp. First Thus. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edmund Dulac. 8vo - over 7 - 9 tall. Dent hardcover
192315477Hodder & Stoughton 1923. 8vo. First Edition on laid paper free endpapers lightly spotted fore-edges lightly browned; original grey paper boards blue cloth back lettered in gilt uncut joints very lightly rubbed case very slightly shaken but binding entirely sound a fresh clean copy. THE FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTION AND THE FIRST SEPARATE COLLECTION PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND. It contains every published poem all the poems printed for private circulation only and a large number of poems previously unpublished. Hatfield's collection is based on texts edited by Shorter who retained copyright in all Bronte writings still protected by law and the Bonner Collection. With an index of first lines. The bibliography remains the most detailed to date though it includes several pamphlets 'printed for private circulation only' supplied by Wise. Due caution therefore. Extremely scarce. Hodder & Stoughton, hardcover
192432994Edinburgh: John Grant 1924. 12 volumes. The Thornton edition. Handsomely illustrated throughout primarily with contemporary photographs of settings and locations title-pages and half-titles printed in red and black. 8vo in the publisher's original dark green cloth the spines gilt decorated in a floral motif and gilt lettered t.e.g. A lovely and fine set the bindings all sound and strong with bright spines and bright gilt a hint of shelving evidence to the extremeties the text-blocks very clean and quite fresh with just a touch of mild spotting as typical at the prelims only. A very attractive collection. A WONDERFUL COLLECTION OF THE BRONTË SISTERS' NOVELS. The set is comprised of Emily Brontë's WUTHERING HEIGHTS; Charlotte Brontë's JANE EYRE VILLETTE THE PROFESSOR and SHIRLEY; and Anne Brontë's TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL and "AGNES GREY. Also included is E. C. Gaskell's THE LIFE OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË. John Grant hardcover