Gaskell

1899 · Best.-Nr. 963T61 — London: Smith Elder & Co. 1899-1900. Cloth. Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. A collection of five volumes of the Haworth edition of this series of works from the celebrated Bronte sisters. Five volumes of a seven volume set lacking volumes one and five. Haworth edition. With eleven illustrations each in Volumes I-V eight in Volume VI and seventeen in Volume VII. The Brontës were a nineteenth century literary family associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire England. The sisters Charlotte Emily and Anne are well-known poets and novelists who like many contemporary female writers published their work under male pseudonyms: Currer Ellis and Acton Bell respectively. Their stories attracted attention for their passion and originality immediately following their publication. Charlotte's Jane Eyre was the first to know success while Emily's Wuthering Heights Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and other works were accepted as masterpieces of literature only after their deaths. This set contains: Volume II - Shirley by Charlotte Bronte 1899. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and nine plates. Volume III - Villette by Charlotte Bronte 1899. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and nine plates. Volume IV - The Professor by Charlotte Bronte 1900. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and nine plates. Volume VI - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte 1900. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and six plates. Volume VII - The Life of Charlotte Bronte by Mrs. Gaskell or Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell an English novelist biographer and short story writer. Illustrated with a frontispiece a facsimile of the original title page and fifteen plates. Collated complete. With introductions to the works by Mary Augusta Ward a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. As well as an introduction to the life by Clement King Shorter a British journalist and literary critic. With publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original green cloth binding. Externally smart with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Minor fading to the spines of the odd volume with small marks to the boards. Minor splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spines with a 1" split to the spine of volume VII. Hinges starting but firm with the front free endpaper of volume II loosening. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and minor age toning to the extremities. The odd small ink underline with contemporary ink inscriptions to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good Smith, Elder, & Co. hardcover